Cultural Entrepreneurship in India

India’s cultural heritage goes back over 5000 years even before the much discussed Indus Valley Civilization. Since the advent of recorded history there is enough evi...

Shashi Kapoor - The Actor Without Airs Is No More

Shashi Kapoor, born as Balbir Prithviraj Kapoor, who was adored as the Adonis of Hindi Cinema and hailed as an actor with a global appeal of his own is no more. The embodim...

Goodbye Shashi Kapoor

One of the brightest stars of our industry now resides in heaven, I guess it is God's turn to say "Mere Paas Shashi Kapoor hai".

THE JITENDRA ARYA RETROSPECTIVE

“Photography begins with the marriage of two minds – the dreamers and the technicians.” Arya on photographing Nehru.

 I have not the...

How Bollywood And Its Marketers Lulled Indians Into Obsessing Over Talentless Star-Kids

Like a good section of Indians, I know all that is to be known about the Kapoor babies. Incessant media reports have, after all, kept us all abreast of the lives of several...

VIDEO: Rare Clip of Raj Kapoor & Dilip Kumar Playing Cricket For Drought Relief in the 1960s

A rare video of Hindi film celebrities playing cricket has been going viral among both cricket and Bollywood fans. The black-and-white video, featuring celebrities like Raj...

Retroscope - A legacy of taste

Young couples who elope to marry, remember Romeo Juliet (the poor kids died)​ Raj Kapoor’s Bobby or the young lovers from a recent Marathi blockbuster Sairat that h...

Why India Needs Its Writers, Historians, Entertainers, Scientists

Since Pandit Nehru every prime minister has talked about films and music being India’s soft power. We all know of Raj Kapoor’s following in the Russia, east Eur...

Meena Kumari - A Legend

Meena Kumari’s rags to riches saga has a poignant edge to it. Dubbedthe greatest tragedienne of the Indian screen, her doomed personal life flashing with deep tragedy...