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The Unending Tragedy
Humra Quraishi views the conditions prevailing for the convicted and undertrials in Kashmir through the lens of writings about them. Perhaps, it is for the very first time th...
Read MoreDouble standards… all the way!
Humra Quraishi goes over the many events of recent past in which it is getting clearer by the day that the discrimination against minorities in India has been internalised to ...
Read MoreA 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. Having worked with British Bangladeshi theatre di...
Read MoreAll about Eve: A History of the Hindi Film Heroine
All about Eve: A History of the Hindi Film HeroineThe more things change, the more they remain the same when it comes to the portrayal of women in Hindi cinema. Shantanu Ray C...
Read MoreA 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 course by those re-writing History. It was probably...
Read MoreA look back at Mira Nair’s tale of Home: Mississippi Masala
Aditi Singh revisits the film Mississippi Masala, thirty years after its release, and recalls the metaphors of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’. Mississippi Mas...
Read MoreChidananda Dasgupta
Monojit Lahiri writes about Chidananda Dasgupta - his birth centenary was celebrated through a 2-day event on November 20th and 21st, at Nandan, Kolkata Film Critic, Scholar,...
Read MoreGrusha Kapoor on her Acts!
Aparajita Krishna walks down the road of actor Grusha Kapoor’s life, and career, which started at the young age of 15. Grusha Kapoor is a child of theatre and one who h...
Read MoreMahishasur Marddini: Endless Night…
Filmmaker Ranjan Ghosh speaks to Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri about his soon-to-be-released film… It is instantly intriguing when a director calls his film ‘a letter o...
Read MoreNothing is funny in one India
Humra Quraishi remembers what Zakia Jafry had once said to give context to the violence spreading across India today and why there is silence surrounding it. A country withou...
Read MoreBHARAT RANG MAHOTSAV 2026 OPENS MUMBAI STAGE
The 25th Bharat Rang Mahotsav arrives in Mumbai on February 7, celebrating global theatr...
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A shocking murder in Maharashtra exposes the dangers of India’s two-child norm, as...
February 6 2026ART IS BORN FREE: TEJAS SONI’S JOURNEY
Ahmedabad-based artist Tejas Soni reflects on five decades of living artfully—acro...
February 5 2026