Against all odds

Film historian, Dhruv Somani, takes you right into the storm of Bollywood’s films revolving around natural and man-made ...

Vyjayantimala: At the confluence of politics, gender and art

Humra  Quraishi recalls a meeting with Vyjayantimala Bali and shares excerpts from an interview she did with her way back...

A Journalist and two Gentlemen: Farooq Shaikh and Parvez Dewan

In the backdrop of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide, Humra Quraishi is reminded of what two gentlemen, Farooq Shaikh...

Reincarnation: Bollywood’s affair with rebirth

Film historian Dhruv Somani gives you a lowdown on the ...

No Entry: Hazards in staging a theatre play in Mumbai

Khalid Mohamed recounts his peril-fraught, one-off experience in staging ‘Kennedy Bridge’, a play on yesteryear&rs...

Scream!

Dhruv Somani, author of a set of four books A Touch of Evil, selects five horror flicks, which unwittingly went through the crrrrreaky cracks.<...

Kashmir Valley’s Rafeeqa Khatoon

I had no choice but to walk on. But the weight of the apple stuffed bag was getting on my nerves, writes Humra Quraishi&n...

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 &...

Simran Puri’s Kangan

Women are equals now by law but back then it was different…

The story unfolds amidst the splendour ...