Art & Culture

Salman Khan has a Cold

Shradha Sukumaran

He’s moody. He ditches. He can destroy careers. So what is it about Salman Khan that makes him so endearing?

Not the Typical Saas-Bahu Serial Writer

Haima Deshpande

Maharashtra Election Commissioner Neela Satyanarayan has the most unusual of hobbies.

They Are Not Exactly Comics

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

They are political books. Just that everything isn’t merely spelt out, it’s also sketched. And as Indian graphic novels get more and more ambitious, they’re busy re-imagining history, Ambedkar, The Emergency, Jurassic Hyderabad and a lot more.

The Tantrik Town

Avantika Bhuyan

It seems like any other little town, until practitioners of wizardry and sorcery start turning up in their benevolent avatar as magic healers.

The Truth Behind Bollywood Lies

Shradha Sukumaran

From adoption of kittens to underworld calls from Dubai, there’s an entire industry of spin doctors churning out fake news.

The Mystery of Genius

Shubhangi Swarup

Actor-director Simon McBurney explores the ‘romantic’ relationship between mathematicians GH Hardy and Srinivas Ramanujan.

Unveiling the Veil

VP Sharma

Pakistani artist Rashid Rana uses pornographic images of women to create the burkha in his critique of cultural stereotypes of women.

Death of the Political Cartoon

Hemant Morparia

Among those who killed it are cartoonists themselves

The Fraud of Vedic Maths

Hartosh Singh Bal

Those who seriously still think ancient India had devised a parallel mathematical system need to acquaint themselves with an inventive Shankaracharya called Bharti Krishna Tirthaji.