ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: REALISM OF THE MATERIALISTIC WORLDVIEW

Sharad Raj explores the evolution of realism in Indian cinema, its many forms and structures, and the deviations in its style ...

WHO’S TO BE BLAMED: THE FILM OR INDIAN AUDIENCES

Leher Sethi walks us through the many reasons why as a society we are to blame as much for the toxic misogyny and sexism in th...

REFLECTING INDIA: AN ANALYSIS OF POPULAR SCRIPTED TELEVISION

An intersectional and longitudinal analysis of popular scripted television from 2018 to 2022, has been released by the Geena Davis Institute of...

पानइंडिया (PaanIndia!)

The history of Paan has mythological as well as historical and Ayurvedic references, writes Aparajita Krishna.

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TORN BETWEEN TWO IDEOLOGIES – RAM RAJYA AND RAVAN RAJ

An excerpt from the book Mandodari, by Koral Dasgupta, released at Kitab Khana Mumbai with a conversation between the author and Avantika Bahug...

DARE TO DREAM

Khalid Mohamed interviews Shriya Pilgaonkar, the multi-faceted actor who has knocked out bravura performances in films, theatr...

Crime Drama, Women and Claude Chabrol!

Writes Vandana Kumar, “No one takes you away from one-dimensional morality while trying to fathom his women charact...

All about Eve: A History of the Hindi Film Heroine

All about Eve: A History of the Hindi Film HeroineThe more things change, the more they remain the same when it comes to the portrayal of women...

A Woman on the verge of abundance: Antara Lahiri

Vinta Nanda connects with the film editor Antara Lahiri, and brings to you this very interesting conversation that she had wit...