Mrigdeep Singh Lamba’s Nostalgic Moments at WWI

Is it easy to make people laugh? How easy is comedy as a genre to project on the screen? How important is timing for a comedian? The gifted ...

The Brilliance of Salvador Dali

The man. The master. The marvel. Salvador Dali is one of the most celebrated artists of all time. His fiercely ...

Picture Books and Coming-of-age Stories

As research on transgender and gender nonconforming children and youth becomes increasingly prevalent in litera...

Electric Women

What if the gender equation were to be reversed so that women could not just defend themselves against violent males but also overpower them...

Casablanca: The Most Quoted Movie of all Times

It’s still the same old story. Seventy-five years after it was released, Casablanca (1942) remains one of the world’s best-loved films and one of my favourite f...

Archie's Four Lives

Paul Auster’s 4321 has made it to the Man Booker Award shortlist this year—the extraordinary 880-page tome that is as much about its protagon...

Earthquakes are inevitable, disaster is not. Should India not learn preparedness from Californians?

In the National Earthquake Conference that happened in May 2016 at the Hilton Long Beach, California, Tom Jordan, the director of the Southern California Earthquak...

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...

A Dearth of Female Filmmakers

Acclaimed actress and director Konkona Sen Sharma has said that there are not enough female filmmakers in the industry, and not enough variety of roles for women, either. Read More