Star! Music Director! Singer!... Lyricist.

Why is the songwriter always last in the ‘hit parade’? Monojit Lahiri attempts to tune-in on this little-explored ...

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...

Signs of the time: The trauma generation

Humra Quraishi looks into reports, that are available, to find out about the fears and anxieti...

The Art of Ramkinkar Baij

Modern Indian sculpture as we know it began with Ramkinkar Baij. Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at the works and legacy of a pio...

The Manipur Man: Bijoykumar Tayenjam

Bijoykumar Tayenjam is an author, a poet and a civil engineer in Imphal, Manipur, writes Vinta Nanda

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Sign of the times: The War Within

Humra Quraishi explains the position of Muslim minorites in ‘new’ India and meets VK Tripathi and M. Y. Tarigami t...

BAISHE SRABON: Dead Poets’ Society

In the series on landmark Bengali films post 2000, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at Srijit Mukherji’s genre-bending noir ...

Signs of the time: Rape, the weapon of mass destruction

Humra Quraishi comments on the most recent rape of a nine-in-year old girl in the national capital of India and the ruthlessne...

Flowers for Fr. Stan Swamy sj

These wonderful tributes from citizens of different communities, collected by Monarose Sheila Pereira, pay respect to the grea...