Divya Dutta: Actor-Star In Her Sky!

Aparajita Krishna meets Divya Dutta and explores her career, the journey of an inimitable actor, a powerful woman and an optim...

Why a Statue of Netaji now?

Subhashini Ali explains why the statue of Netaji will not transform the Prime Minister into an inheritor of the legacy of the ...

Claude Chabrol and The Poetics of Murder

My first exposure to the ‘French New Wave’, La Nouvelle Vague, was through Claude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978). M...

A Few Bad Men (and Women): The Journey of the Villain in Hindi Cinema

National Award-winning Balaji Vittal speaks to Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri on his new book, Pure Evil: The Bad Men of Bollywood

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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Sunil Shanbag: A Theatre Yatra!

Aparajita Krishna takes a deep dive into the life and theatre times of Sunil Shanbag and walks you through an interesting tell...

Sidharth Sengupta: Goldie’s Serial Count!

Aparajita Krishna makes a tortoise run, and faster than a hare, when she wants. Here she makes...

Decoding Shakespeare drama through fate

Neil Banerjee retrospects on the literature of Shakespeare on his 405Read More

Days of qawwalis

Film historian Dhruv Somani asks why have the qawwalis, once a big draw in the Bollywood movies, have gone with the wind today...