Art & Culture

The Japanese Horror Movie Experience

Chandi Deitmer

The Indian Art Summit was every bit as creepy and disturbing as those yuurei films

The Crossdressing Raja and Rani of Jhansi

Mrinal Pandey

An extract from Mrinal Pandey’s translation of 1857: The Real Story of the Great Uprising by Vishnu Bhatt Godshe Versaikar. It is the only eyewitness account by an Indian of Rani Lakshmi Bai’s revolt

‘My Name is Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan’

Shubhangi Swarup

The actor traces his roots in conversation with Open

The Kingdom of Khan

Shubhangi Swarup

They have ruled Bollywood for as long as you can possibly remember. Plain coincidence?

The ‘Ban’ on Javed Akhtar

Rahul Bhatia

Is there one? What kind of ban is it? And how do you enforce one anyway? The legal/ethical lines seem blurry

Himalayan Leap of Love

Avantika Bhuyan

A Sino-Tibetan love story, welcomed and cherished by an Indian hill station

A Date with Picasso

Avantika Bhuyan

If you’re at the India Art Summit, this is your chance to catch some of the artist’s rare works

House of Art

Janice Pariat

Bharti Kher’s new installation is an exploration of the light-and-dark dichotomy of everyday life

Bring the Noise

Anees Saigal

Delhi wasn’t quite ready for the extravagant genius of The Prodigy. But it rose to the occasion. Literally too

Almost every big-budget movie is losing money in Bollywood. And yet, even if a small-budget movie makes thrice its cost, the industry does not count it as a blockbuster. Welcome to the warped economics of la-la-land