Celebrating the Women behind the Camera

In this age of Netflix, Hotstar and Amazon Prime, there's a unique streaming service called MUBI which I am sur...

All the World’s a Stage, Not in Mumbai Theatre at Least

Frankly, theatre didn’t prove to be that long-cherished platform to tell a story which was of some value to me – a story about a pre-teen boy who was saved from...

Alexa & Katie: Humour, Hopes and Teen Hijinks

How we wish Disney never kiboshed dishing out our zany, colourful teen shows that happily painted the stories of an exuberant iconoclastic g...

Rise: Art Sells, Are You Buying?

Latterly, Hadi Eldebek’s compelling talk ‘Why Must Artists be Poor’ canvassed a significant yet easily imperceptible question...

Life Sentence- A Deurmekaar Seriocomic

When life gives you lemons what do you do next? Squeeze it o’ not, the answer is entirely subject to individual perspectives and their...

From Delicate to Daring: Actresses Who have fought the Good Fight

Gone are the days when women in Bollywood were portrayed as diffident and reserved. Over the years, the role of...

The Disappearing Art of Conversation

Since the emergence of humans on the planet, conversation has been the cornerstone of human civilization. From the initial words exchanged r...

Change and its many manifestations in India

Everyone in the country has a mobile phone. India has more than a billion phones, second only to China. Almost 240 million people have telev...

Revisiting The Epics

It is difficult to get young, urban audiences interested in classical dance, and perhaps even more so to interest them in mythology.

Th...