Art & Culture

Songs on Their Last Breath

Avantika Bhuyan

Rajasthan’s folk music might be endangered, but its causes are ever relevant: caste and women’s empowerment

The Private Life of Vinod Sehgal

Rahul Pandita

The battle of a ghazal singer to rediscover himself and his art away from the spotlight

The Logic of John Abraham

Madhavankutty Pillai

Almost every male supermodel who tried his luck in Bollywood ended up as a character artiste. John Abraham proved an exception because he did things others just wouldn’t

War Influences

Avantika Bhuyan

Pablo Picasso’s politically motivated paintings are all collected in one place for the first time. A rare opportunity

The Last Indian Superstar

Lakshmi Chaudhry

The secret of Rajini’s mass appeal is that he’s a true celluloid hero, not a multiplex megabrand like Shah Rukh or the latter-day Amitabh.

The Pursuit of Heroic Masculinity

Sudha G. Tilak

The women in Rajinikanth’s films are always fated to be tamed and put in their place by the man. The fan loves that.

Gandhi, the Untouchable

Subhra Mazumdar

Artist J Nandakumar had his show cancelled because he dared to show Gandhi trampling on Dalit rights. He fights on

Star Wars: Attack of the Tweets

Shradha Sukumaran

Anonymous tweeters are taking the mickey out of superstars like Salman Khan and Amitabh Bachchan.

The Man Who Refused Aamir Khan

Shubhangi Swarup

One part of Amit Trivedi still curses himself for it. But like Aamir himself, the music director will not do more than one film at a time. So ‘No One Killed Jessica’ it is, for now.