Art & Culture

Scheduled Cast

Satyen K Bordoloi

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

An Inconvenient Truth

Pramod Kumar KG

Mr Dalrymple, why is it so hard to give credit where it is due?

The North-South Mellifluence

Subhra Mazumdar

Young exponents of Carnatic and Hindustani classical music are bringing the north and south a little closer with their collaborations

The Teen Taal Spirit

Anil Budur Lulla

After centuries in the shadows, the tabla comes to the forefront with a 22-member orchestra, the first such ensemble in the world

And Roles for All

Jaideep Mazumdar

Inviting the audience to perform, a Bengal theatre group has galvanised activism in Indian villages. And engineered the scrapping of a Reliance SEZ in Maharashtra

Does Dalrymple know what racism really is?

Hartosh Singh Bal

The ‘racism’ charge is absurd, and designed merely to deflect attention from the real issue.

“The piece you ran is blatantly racist”

William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple takes exception to a piece we ran arguing that India’s life of letters was still beholden to the British.

His Own Way

Rahul Bhatia

Big things are expected of Raj Kumar Gupta, the man who made Aamir. He knows this, but is doing his damnedest to ignore it

In Search of Tagore

Shubhangi Swarup

Photographer Edward Hoppé came to India on Rabindranath Tagore’s invitation. Yet, it is Tagore who seems the most elusive in his photographs

Raza Returns to Pay a Debt

Shaikh Ayaz

After staying in France for nearly 60 years, one of the world’s greatest modern artists, Syed Haider Raza, has decided to “spend the rest of my days” in India