Celebrating Bachchan!

It’s his 79^th birthday on the 11^th October, and S M M Ausaja writes that It’s not easy to ch...

Being Rita Hayworth (October 17 1918 to May 14 1987)

How Rita Hayworth has motivated him to write noir and how he cannot completely discard Oedipal undertones in hi...

Sign of the times: So far from God!

Humra Quraishi discusses the definite background to the sorry state of affairs in Afghanistan.

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Simply a storyteller: Mitra Phukan

It is my privilege to introduce, to those among you, who don’t know her, Mitra Phukan - a writer, author and thought leader - writes Read More

Stay safe, ignore alarming news-spreaders

An update by Dr Kishore Madhwani on the pandemic situation in India and globally

As Corona positive cases increase across the globe, our only weapo...

Signs of the time: The vacuum

Humra Quraishi imagines what it would be like if India is to have a ministry of loneliness and leaves you to ponder over a bea...

Sculpting in Time

Sharad Raj revisits Tarkovsky’s film Mirror (Russian), released in 1975 and he expresses, in this piece, its art, aesthe...

Where heroines dare

Film historian, Dhruv Somani, writes on leading ladies ...

The Varanasi mystique

A photo-essay by Ashis Ghatak, vivifying how the winter sets in on the holy city of Varanasi, on the banks of the River Ganges...