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Pragmatic Panchsheel

Alok Jagdhari walks you through why it is important to stay on the path India has followed for foreign policy, which is based upon the principles of Panchsheel, since independ...

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The Master: Soumitra Chatterjee on Satyajit Ray

Even under the uncertainty facing the world at large, following the outbreak of Covid-19, a valiant bid is on in Kolkata to celebrate the centennial year of India’s best...

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Re-Engineering Culture: Majha House

Preeti Gill, founder of Majha House in Amritsar, tells about the place, which asserts Punjab’s rich history of performance, literature and art. She says, “The idea...

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News Media: The End..

Geeta Datta, programmer and veteran reporter, views news broadcasting from what goes on inside newsrooms and explains why the media is losing its relevance now. ‘There ...

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Video Gaga

Film historian Dhruv Somani excavates the exclusive made-for video movies by Nari Hira and other producers, way before the arrival of the streaming channels Long before Netfl...

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Sunil Dutt – 6th June 1929 to 25th May 2005

I had  met  Sunil Dutt  more than  once, writes Humra Quraishi in her piece this week, where she recalls one such time when she interviewed him in Delhi. ...

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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 series. The zoom, cut or pan to the Eid moon in the...

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Between Fake News and Truth…

In these extraordinary times, like everywhere else in the world, fake news and misinformation are spreading like wildfire around Covid-19 and related issues. Misinformation t...

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ART SALUTES WORKERS

Khalid Mohamed writes on the imperative need for Indian artists to express  their strong views on the state of nation under lockdown today. News is that artists, stretch...

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Justice for Women Amidst COVID-19

A new report documents major challenges to women’s access to justice in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and puts forth recommendations to accelerate action and push back ...

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AMITABH BACHCHAN: HINDI CINEMA’S DARK EDGE

The Greatest villain that Hindi films could not have…though one is not complainin...

February 13 2026

ROMANCE ZINDABAD OR DRAMABAZI KI JAY

Monojit Lahiri checks out the real drama behind this momentous day and checks out all th...

February 12 2026

PARALLEL LIVES BETWEEN THEATRE & CORPORATE WORLDS

In this candid conversation, interviewer Vinta Nanda speaks with Prakash Vaswani about t...

February 11 2026