पानइंडिया (PaanIndia!)

The history of Paan has mythological as well as historical and Ayurvedic references, writes Aparajita Krishna.

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FLASHBACK TO FORWARD

Today Aparajita Krishna is under the spell of stories of the past and present of Producer, Director Vinod Pande, Thespian MK R...

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 mutiny or a plea for independence

As discussions continue, Farrukh Dhondy remembers writing a script for Ketan Mehta - Rani of Jhansi, which was hijacked of cou...

The Indian Screen: Myth and Reality

Farrukh Dhondy traces the evolution of Indian storytelling from early days, when stories travelled by word-of-mouth, to now, a...

Times of Indian Politics

Farrukh Dhondy makes an attempt to understand Indian Politics in context to the self-imploding ideology of Hindutva

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Bhagat Singh’s writings on caste

In his writings on caste, Bhagat Singh understood the practice of untouchability and its associated binary of purity-pollution as an integral p...

That’s Entertainment!

How do I start writing about a man’s love affair with Hollywood and the movies? Especially when he happen...

Of human bondage

Khalid Mohamed’s throwback to his encounter with social documentarist, Sebastio Salgado, whom he rates as the world&rsqu...