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Badnam Basti: Found after 49 years

Badnam Basti (Alley of ill repute), India's first gay film that was released in 1971 only to be lost to obscurity for around five decades, befo...

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Shibu Natesan: Doing it my way

Khalid Mohamed interviews the eminent artist Shibu Natesan, who has varied from images of political protest to nature studies,...

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Shot by Shot: Politics of photography

Young photographer Vatsal Shah writes on the obstacles ...

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In Exile: The last years of M.F. Husain

Khalid Mohamed rewinds to an interview with M.F. Husain, the peerless artist, who had to spend his end-years jet-hopping betwe...

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Snake Bites: Bollywood’s Naagins

Film historian Dhruv Somani takes stock of the Naagin and Naag movies, which have crowded the Bollywood repertoire for decades...

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Minority Report

Khalid Mohamed writes on the ceaseless ghettoization of Muslim characters in B-town’s mainstream movies, and now web ser...

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Chiller Thrillers

Film historian Dhruv Somani unearths eight Bollywood films, which were grossly undervalued.

THE WORD : RUMI – A NEW TRANSLATION

RUMI

A great spiritual master and poet, Jalaluddin Rumi was born in Wakhsh (Tajikistan) ...

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A young woman becomes a ‘symbol of hope’ for protestors in Sudan

On the 8th of April, an image of a young woman standing above a crowd in Khartoum, Sudan went viral among social media. As tens of thousands cr...

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Lanterns flood the sky during Thailand’s Floating Lantern Festival

The Light Festival or the Lantern Festival in Thailand is celebrated on the evening of the full moon of the 12th month every y...

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