No Entry: Hazards in staging a theatre play in Mumbai

Khalid Mohamed recounts his peril-fraught, one-off experience in staging ‘Kennedy Bridge’, a play on yesteryear&rs...

Copy-right-Copy-wrong

Veena Bakshi reveals the flawed system by which our Indian entertainment universe operates; where copyrights holders may as we...

Kashmir Valley’s Rafeeqa Khatoon

I had no choice but to walk on. But the weight of the apple stuffed bag was getting on my nerves, writes Humra Quraishi&n...

Kulmeet Makkar: The man who never said ‘No’

A thought crossed my mind as I said a small prayer last night, “I’ve written two tributes back to back for Irrfan Khan and Rishi Ka...

Not the Mumbai I know

“All of man's achievements and endeavors will be brought to naught because of his greed to takeover and tame nature. Hunt down its creatu...

The Big Bollywood Dream

The story of Sapan Krishna, who has featured in ads and films, and waits to attain stardom without the mandatory round of sexual favours and da...

When the necktie was described in Hindi as Kant-Lungoth

“They were there

You thought- always in your care

But they grew...

Can it be saved? The fast-vanishing heritage of Mumbai’s Mazagaon, where history resounds in the air

Although history resonates from every crevice of Mazagaon – an almost hidden world in the heart of central Mumbai – it is being rew...

A Light Tale

In his new book, Elevation, Stephen King writes in his own unique way about intolerance and how one man rises above it all in a way the reader would not be able to...