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#YearInReview | Beyond the blockbusters, 2025’s best films were the risk-takers.

Smaller, bolder, and worth watching again — here’s our pick of the year’s standout cinema.

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December 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Say hello to #NowWatching – Scroll’s new recommendations & reviews newsletter.

Curated by our film critic Nandini Ramnath, it’s your weekly guide to what deserves your time on screens big and small.

Read this week's newsletter

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December 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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#Backstory2025 | While covering the story, I noticed an odd world of human behaviour. Near these kabutarkhanas, many beggars squatted, some in desperate need of food and clothes. But they were ignored by the pigeon feeders. scroll.in/article/1089...

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December 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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“We condemn the recent gruesome killing of a Hindu youth in Mymensingh and expect the perpetrators of the crime to be brought to justice,” MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.

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#Bangladesh
December 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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By sourcing data from the ground, the community is involved in preserving linguistic diversity and advancing linguistic inclusion, founder of TuluAI, Amrith Shenava said.

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✍️Tauseef Ahmad & Sajid Raina

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December 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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A notice issued by the Greater #Siliguri Hoteliers Welfare Association said that the decision was linked to provocative statements allegedly made by a section of #Bangladeshi citizens and alleged disrespect towards the Indian national flag.

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December 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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During the hearing on Friday, Additional Solicitor General N Venkataraman, representing the Union government, said that the Union government will inform in its counter-affidavit when a GST Council meeting can be scheduled, seeking more time.

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December 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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In a deeply patriarchal and casteist society, only some women’s violation matters. Only some women elicit the anguish of the crowd.

Amrita Dutta asks has #rape outrage brought us to a dead end?

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December 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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The incident took place at about 3 am near the bus stand area in the Chomu town, which is 40 km from the Rajasthan capital, PTI reported.

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December 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Spotless also subverts stereotypes. Best of all, it does so with a lightness of touch, with a self-deprecating humour, and by also evoking all that is sweet and innocent about being 14, writes Shibani Phukan.

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December 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Mymensingh Additional Superintendent of Police Mohammed Abdullah Al Mamun said that the six persons arrested on Thursday allegedly incited employees at the factory with slogans and pressured #DipuChandraDas to resign.

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December 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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#Uttarakhand | Bilal Ahmed Ganie said that the assailants asked him his name and where he was from. “When I said Kashmir, they started beating me with kicks and punches,” he said. He said that bystanders goaded the mob and verbally abused him.

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December 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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The US president said that he had warned the terror group that if they did not stop “the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was”.

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December 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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A disabled man was inside his home when the mob set it on fire. He could not get out in time. The other person, a Karbi man, was killed in police firing, said a doctor at Kheroni Model Hospital. scroll.in/article/1089...

Both sides blamed the police for triggering the violence.

By Rokibuz Zaman
December 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Today in Scroll:

- ‘The police watched as my home was burnt’: Why Assam’s Karbi Anglong went up in flames

- AAP’s Saurabh Bharadwaj, two others booked for video of Santa Claus fainting from Delhi pollution

- Tulu, Bodo, Kashmiri: Startups are teaching AI models Indian dialects

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December 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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#Bangladesh | The Daily Star quoted residents of Pangsha as saying that Amrit Mondal, alias Samrat, had formed a criminal gang and had been involved in extortion, among other criminal activities.

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December 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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#Assam | The persons allegedly carried out the vandalism at St Mary’s School in Panigaon village on Wednesday. A video showed them setting fire to Christmas decorations and shouting “Jai Shri Ram”.

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December 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Haruko Tanaka is one of Lal’s “grand-disciples” in her unpublished research paper summarises the arrival and rapid rise of the dance form in #Japan. “There is a grace and subtlety to #Odissi that had great appeal for the Japanese sensibility,” she said.

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✍️Malini Nair
December 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The FIR was registered on the complaint of an advocate, Khushboo George, who alleged that AAP leaders maliciously committed acts intended to outrage religious feelings.

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December 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I still see myself in some part in/as that gleam in Mani’s eye, which for all its powerful affirmation did not attempt to possess, restrict or inhibit. It allowed and in fact nurtured flowering.

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December 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Soon after landing in #Bangladesh on Thursday, #TariqueRahman spoke at a massive rally in #Dhaka. He outlined his vision for the country and invoked the words of American civil rights activist Martin Luther King.

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December 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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"In the 1940s, Marine Drive was still sparsely populated – those who lived there hurriedly moved out in 1942 after rumours spread that the Japanese would bomb the city."

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An excerpt by Sidharth Bhatia.

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December 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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While Jewel Sheikh's co-workers and family members alleged that he was attacked on suspicion of being an undocumented immigrant from Bangladesh, the #Odisha Police denied this.

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December 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Alok Pandey, the station house officer at the Husainaganj police station, said that the incident came to light after a video of the demolition was widely circulated on social media. An FIR was filed against five persons and four unidentified persons.

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December 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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#Odisha | Apart from Ganesh Uike, who carried a reward of Rs 1.1 crore on his head, three suspected Maoists were also killed in the gunfight, which took place in a forest in the Chakapad police station area.

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December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM