Thought Box

Celebrating Bachchan!

It’s his 79th birthday on the 11th October, and S M M Ausaja writes that It’s not easy to chronicle India’s most famous and popular celebrity on whom reams a...

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Signs of the time: The truth is still ALIVE!

Humra  Quraishi looks at the way in which Indian society decays under merciless authoritarian governance Let us stop focusing on the horrific happenings taking place in ...

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The art of Gaganendranath Tagore

At the height of darkness comes the first stirrings of dawn - a renaissance in the arts, literature and social life. It is against this backdrop that we need to evaluate the w...

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Taboo Love and the Sensibility of Agnès Varda

Her cinema played with subversive and controversial subjects even as she kept up her engagement with the political environment of her times intact, writes Vandana Kumar My fi...

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My first trip on Air-India

With Air-India in the news, Farrukh Dhondy reminisces upon his first trip on the Maharajah’s airline.  I left India for the first time when I was twenty years old,...

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Love me if you can: Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

“Love me if you can”, says the last will and testament of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, writes Juhi Saklani  The desire is couched as a friendly suggestion and is not ...

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Signs of the time: What Gandhi didn’t want

Humra Quraishi looks at the indiscriminate violence taking place around the country ironically on Gandhi Jayanti, the birth anniversary of the Mahatma whose belief in seculari...

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Signs of the time: The trauma generation

Humra Quraishi looks into reports, that are available, to find out about the fears and anxieties of the present youth and children in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.  I&...

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Widening the Definition of Literature with Bob Dylan

The word ‘literature’ in a dictionary covers many genres of achievement and is the generic name for many sins, writes Farrukh Dhondy. Nevertheless it evokes the co...

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Hrid Majhare: The Bard’s Official ‘Debut’ in Bengali Cinema

In the series on landmark Bengali films post 2000, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at Ranjan Ghosh’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello, with Macbeth and Julius Caes...

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PRATIBIMBA: MARATHI THEATRE’S SPIRIT

As the fifth edition of Pratibimba Marathi Natya Utsav concluded at the NCPA, Prof Dr Av...

May 4 2026

BORROWED LOVE FADES TOO SOON

Film critic Arnab Banerjee examines Ek Din, a Hindi remake of the Thai romantic drama On...

May 3 2026

REIMAGINING MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH COMPASSION

In this deeply personal conversation, Vinta Nanda speaks with Sachin Chaudhry about ment...

May 2 2026