NO WATER, NO FOOD, NO MEDICINE, NO LIGHT

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the raging Israel-Hamas conflict completed a month on November 7th and more than 10,000 people...

PAINTING THE TOWN RED: VANI TRIPATHI TIKOO

Vinta Nanda talks to Vani Tripathi Tikoo about her recently published book, Why Can’t Elephants Be Red?, and about other things.

Akku, the pr...

You’ve come a long way – Baby!

Monojit Lahiri reviews Shobha De’s Lockdown Liaisons and gives it a thumbs up!

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Shakespeare in Bollywood

Shakespeare travels, writes Farrukh Dhondy, in his piece on how well and how not so well the bard’s writing has been ada...

A Faust for Bangladesh

Farrukh Dhondy at his best as he recounts the attempt he once made to adapt Goethe’s Faust for the Bangladeshi screen. Read More

Signs of the time: The truth is still ALIVE!

Humra  Quraishi looks at the way in which Indian society decays under merciless authoritarian governance

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How the war was won

Khalid Mohamed reviews the inexplicably neglected 377 Ab Normal, is zapped by the mega-abrupt Lahore Confidential, and discove...

The outlier of French new wave: Claude Chabrol

In a career that spanned over five decades, Claude Chabrol (24 June 1930 - 12 Sep 2010) was one of the most prolific and widely respected of Fr...

Boys for Sale: An Intriguing Documentary about Gay Prostitution in Japan

“If you’d never experienced this, it would be hard to understand.”

That’s the first line of Boys for Sale, a documentary that had its North ...