Guru Dutt: A Life Interrupted

Humra Quraishi observes from the auteur Guru Dutt’s life, how fragile artists are when they’re possessed by their ...

Your teeth. Please!

Humra Quraishi tells this story about a woman who is led through a strange experience because of a toothache

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Echoes of 'Black Lives Matter' in India

The unrest, the carnage, the protests that shook Trump’s America a few weeks ago, seems to be echoing in India too - though the tremors a...

Tara Kaushal: Why Men Rape

Vinta Nanda interviews author Tara Kaushal, on the eve of the release of her book Why Men Rape...

Speak English, Drink Rum: Women at the workplace

Vinta Nanda recalls the times when she was a smoker, enjoyed drinking rum and coke every other evening and also spoke fluent E...

Chiller Thrillers

Film historian Dhruv Somani unearths eight Bollywood films, which were grossly undervalued.

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On Manto’s 108th birth anniversary

“The more I sit thinking of Manto’s genius, I recall  my  meeting his grandnephew Abid Hasan Minto, in  New Delhi&rd...

Rishi Kapoor: He defined ‘Bollywood Art’

I write this tribute to Rishi Kapoor. A legend, a hero, the actor unparalleled and a person who was...

Count your blessings: name them One by One

Roads utterly empty, except for a stray vehicle here and there, I proceeded to drive towards the vet’s clinic. Lucy Diamond needed to see...