Poverty Rises: Millions Pushed Out of Middle Class

According to a report by Pew Research Centre, during the 2020 pandemic 32 million people were pushed out of the middle classes in India, report...

The genius of Jacques Tati

Sharad Raj explores how the existential and political angst of the torchbearers of the Novell Vague got an edge over Tati when it came to intel...

Gup-shup with GoPu

Noted academic, playwright, writer Govind P Deshpande (2^nd August 1938 – 16^th October 2013) was be...

Signs of the time: The stream of freedom’s flood

With the passing away of writer Ved Mehta, I can only say that we have lost  not just a great writer but also a man with a definite person...

The second last word

Vinta Nanda writes about the prevailing culture in the business of media and entertainment in India. 

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Your teeth. Please!

Humra Quraishi tells this story about a woman who is led through a strange experience because of a toothache

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Farewell Basu Da

Amit Khanna talks about Basu Chatterjee on the day Indian Cinema has lost him. He recalls how Basu Da was known for having mir...

Slow and Sustainable Fashion

Clothes shopping used to be an occasional event. It happened just a couple of times in a year. But few years ago, clothes became cheaper, trend...

In 2016, Hindi Literature Became The Voice Of the Marginalised

Who reads Hindi literature these days? And who writes it? For a language rightly claiming to be spoken by more than 400 million people, such questions seem astonishing. But...