GENDER: EXIT MATASREE...ENTER MOM–KI HOYA??

Once the emotional anchor of Hindi cinema, the quintessential Bollywood mother shaped generations of storytelling with her sacrifice—unti...

GENDER: CAN WOMEN BE ‘EFFECTIVE’ LEADERS?

Monojit Lahiri revisits the rhetorical question and jumps across to a few women for their responses on why hasn’t the eq...

POLITICS: CONGRESS’S PLURALISM IS KEY TO VICTORY

Congress’s commitment to pluralism is vital for maintaining the trust of minorities, marginalized communities, and secular Hindus, ensuri...

THE OPTIMISTS - 2023

Vinta Nanda glides into the next year with this: I decided to focus on hope and confidence, on the positive i...

URMI JUVEKAR: The Storyteller

Aparajita Krishna deep dives to writer Urmi Juvekar’s life and journey as a creative force and returns from the immersiv...

AB@80me@61

Aparajita Krishna writes a letter to Amitabh Bachchan, recalling her relationship with him while she was growing up over the y...

MERE PAAS MAA - SORRY, MOM HAI!!

Has ‘Hey Mom’ replaced ‘Mataji’ in B-town? On Mother’s Day, Monojit Lahiri discusses t...

Revisiting Mani Kaul’s Mini-series Ahmaq

Devdutt Trivedi writes that in Ahmaq, Kaul wanted to underline the symbiotic relationship between Hinduism and Islam.

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Shyamal Uncle turns off the lights

In the first of a new series on standout Bengali films post 2000, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at Suman Ghosh’s 2013 fil...