Saluting Akbar Padamsee, an artist and a beautiful mind

It was with a tentative sense of bravado that I had approached Akbar Padamsee, supremo artist, for the use of one of his brilliant metascapes &...

Of human bondage: National award-winning photo-journalist’s S.L. Shanth Kumar’s believe-it-or-not real-life story

He snagged this year’s National Award for the Best Professional Photographer on the theme of Women-led Development. Right now, he’s...

Bollywood’s leap out of the closet

“It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance....

We were the Cathedral School boys, the Cats

What it meant to be a ‘Cat’ during the swinging 1960s at the premier school of Mumbai, India? Take that, Campionites!

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Can it be saved? The fast-vanishing heritage of Mumbai’s Mazagaon, where history resounds in the air

Although history resonates from every crevice of Mazagaon – an almost hidden world in the heart of central Mumbai – it is being rew...

Such a curious Journey: Raj More, from mimicry shows to National Award-winning Artist

His artworks are tongue-in-cheek comments – on subjects ranging from demonetisation and political unrest to the vice-like grip of Bollywo...

The Revolutionary Heart

There’s a rare film which arouses you like a lover’s first kiss. And it’s the rare film-maker who can survive the test of tim...

Spare a thought for Lakhs of Unemployed Single-screen Cinema Workers of Bollywood City

As many as two lakh cinema workers - ushers, projectionists, ticket counter clerks, especially – have been rendered unemployed in the las...

Lost but not found: An artist focuses on the tragedy of the Nation’s rising cases of Missing Children

At a modest estimate, a lakh, if not more children go missing every year from diverse parts of the nation, incl...

The Khan Syndrome: Are we ready for a New Kind of Hero?

Admit it. We all need a hero - someone whom we can look up to, admire and believe that he represents the zeitge...