Art & Culture

“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

The Snap Shut Project

Rukminee Guha Thakurta

The detritus of the dream to produce India’s first camera

India’s Most Haunted

Shubhangi Swarup

From governor generals to lowly soldiers, India hosts many Britons who are only too glad to hang around after they have been long dead

The Literary Raj

Hartosh Singh Bal

For all their posturing and weighty pretences, the Indian elite’s life of letters is still strangely beholden to the British

Goa’s Reigning Mafiosi

Sudeep Chakravarti

There is no mistaking Russian muscle in this tourist heaven, but the presiding bad guys are decidedly Goan

A Rebuke from Rani

Akshay Sawai

The actress talks about No One Killed Jessica and frets about journalists jumping to conclusions about the real-life inspiration for her TV-anchor role in the movie

Flubbergast Yourself

Avantika Bhuyan

Meet Flubber. He wears baby powder to work, holds up traffic after he is done for the day, and claims he was not born this way. The story of how a copywriter with an MBA turned into a clown