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Kaleidoscope

KALEIDOSCOPE: THE ONE-WAY SHIPS IS A STIRRING DEBUT

A powerful debut, The One-Way Ships unearths the forgotten voices of colonial India’s ayahs—young girls torn from home, na...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: STARS ONCE SHINED IN SILENCE

Explore how Bollywood and Hollywood stars of yesteryear maintained mystique in stark contrast to today’s overexposed celebrity culture dr...

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Retroscope

RETROSCOPE: LOVE, FRIENDSHIP AND TRAGEDY

Khalid Mohamed rewinds to the extraordinary but forgotten story of  yesteryear’s actor Shyam, a major star actor wh...

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Festivals

FESTIVALS: OF MUSIC, MEMORIES AND MUSICAL MEMORIES

Music weaves memory, emotion, and meaning into life’s quietest and loudest moments. On World Music Day, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri Read More

Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: RECLAIMING SHOORPANAKHA, REWRITING EPIC SILENCE

What becomes of a mutilated woman? In her solo piece Shoorpanakha: A Search, Parshathy J Nath reclaims a silenced voi...

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Powerful People

POWERFUL PEOPLE: NEXT ACT, DEFYING PATRIARCHY

Khalid Mohamed interviews actor and former supermodel Dipannita Sharma on toxic Bollywood dynamics, gender politics, and her p...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: HOW TO ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

A candid, contemplative journey through the life of Anil Kapoor — actor, father, eternal learner — revealing reinvention, and the r...

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Powerful People

POWERFUL PEOPLE: IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER

From Ajmer to artificial intelligence, Kamal Swaroop’s cinematic odyssey spans surreal visions, forgotten histories, and radical pedagogy...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: SOME STORIES STAY BURIED

Why a sequel to Zubeidaa can never be made: because truth, memory, and myth blur irreversibly when royalty, cinema, and unresolved grief intert...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: LET HEROINES BE FUNNY, TOO

Comedy Roles for Bollywood Heroines? Kya Joke Mara!! Monojit Lahiri wonders why good, solid comic roles are not writt...

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