Films: Opportunity in the Crisis

In several of my recent articles I have written about the crisis facing Indian film industry, specially Bollywo...

Collateral: Wrestling with the Refugee Crisis

Collateral is an avant-garde approach to storytelling. The narr...

Sharp Satire

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing may be regarded as misfortune. To lose both can be regarded as more lik...

All the World’s a Stage, Not in Mumbai Theatre at Least

Frankly, theatre didn’t prove to be that long-cherished platform to tell a story which was of some value to me – a story about a pre-teen boy who was saved from...

Experiments with Storytelling: Meet Anuraadha Tewari

In a freewheeling conversation, Anuraadha Tewari, scree...

Alexa & Katie: Humour, Hopes and Teen Hijinks

How we wish Disney never kiboshed dishing out our zany, colourful teen shows that happily painted the stories of an exuberant iconoclastic g...

The Case of a Prehistoric Shark Tooth gone Missing

Authorities have been left puzzled after a giant shark tooth that's more than two million years old has been sn...

The Best of an Entertainment-Packed SXSW 2018

South by Southwest is one hell of a week you wouldn't want to miss. Think of the annual music conference and fe...

Celebrity Circus and Media

Andy Warhol famously said that everyone in the world would be famous for fifteen minutes.

Hyperbole per...