Shyamal Uncle turns off the lights

In the first of a new series on standout Bengali films post 2000, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at Suman Ghosh’s 2013 fil...

My city, my friend

Khalid Mohamed in a chat fest with Harshad Rajadhyaksha, Chief Creative Officer at the Ogilvy ad agency, on his passion for st...

Such Desperate Measures

Khalid Mohamed reviews the thriller Flat 211, the spy drama London Confidential and more showing currently on the streaming ch...

How Classics Define Today’s Hollywood

While looking back into the history of cinema isn’t the preference of youth today, it's no doubt that cla...

The Lack of the Land

We may be the 4th fastest growing economy in the world, but something as basic as food is still a source of worry for a majority of our people.

A survey by the Nati...

Medical Inflation, Lifestyle Diseases Make Critical Illness Insurance A Must: Here's How To Buy It

A serious illness, like most calamities, often arrives unannounced. And much like a natural disaster, takes a grievous toll: physical, emotional and financial. Worse, the d...

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

Severe drought in Maharashtra leads to nearly six-fold rise in migration from villages

In an indicator of the severe drought situation due to 67% deficient rainfall in the state, nearly 3.6 lakh people from Maharashtra’s villages have sought daily wage ...

How rural India spends

Contrary to general perception, rural people in India are spending more on commodities that are considered major urban expenditure, such as food, energy, cereals, pulses, v...