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...

Those Courtesan Days

Film historian Dhruv Somani, writes on the near-extinct genre of Bollywood films, which took you into the kothas and durbars o...

To the story I was born

Aparajita Krishna plunges into her rich past, where there is a paean to her left leaning parents who inhabited India’s r...

Our Tarzans: Bollywood’s romance with the Lord of the Jungle

Film historian, Dhruv Somani, tracks down the unusual repertoire of desi Tarzan movies, which once used to delight Indian audi...

Your teeth. Please!

Humra Quraishi tells this story about a woman who is led through a strange experience because of a toothache

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Bimal Roy Film Society to screen ‘Evening Shadows’ in Mumbai

Audiences in Mumbai and Pune can catch the multiple award feature film Evening Shadows, on the big screen in the coming weeks, at the ...

Simple acts of kindness reassure persons with Dementia

Life is not good for a person living with Dementia. Dementia is a syndrome, a group of related symptoms - associated with an ongoing decline of...

Shubha Mudgal sings a new note for film Evening Shadows

Eminent singer Shubha Mudgal, who is renowned as a leading exponent of Hindustani Classical music, has composed and sung a melodious song &...