Who decides?

Newcomers we were to this survival game, to this locale, to this one-room setting, to this downslide, to this helplessness. We were new at sawi...

Cinema of Resistance

Reema Moudgil walks us through some compelling cinema over the last seventy years of India’s independence, which has chr...

Video Gaga

Film historian Dhruv Somani excavates the exclusive made-for video movies by Nari Hira and other producers, way before the arr...

The Last Concert

Begum Akhtar passed away a day after her concert in Ahmedabad on 29 October, 1974. Here’s a rare photo-essay of that enchanted evening by...

Of Abusive Power & Complicit Silence

Reema Moudgil walks us through three documentaries streaming right now, which show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. An...

India’s Disowned: Pataal Lok

In her review of the newly dropped series on OTT platform Amazon Prime Paatal Lok, Reema Moudgil writes that the images haunt because they remind us of som...

On being an Indian: Ruskin Bond

In his essay, "On being an Indian", Ruskin Bond explains his Indian identity, "Race did not make me one. Religion did not make me one. But...

Farewell Mrs Gulshan Ewing

Left: Gulshan Ewing with Danny Kaye and Right: with Cary Grant 

Khalid Mohamed pays tribute to Mrs Gulsh...

All that’s wrong with the discourse surrounding Rape

In the aftermath of the brutal rape and murder of a Hyderabad Vet and the encounter of the accused that followed, there has come to the fore an...