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Art & Culture

You Can’t Please All

A recent storm raised in a teacup points to contemporary India’s uneasy relationship with a culture of reviewing

Nagesh Kukunoor: Give Trust a Chance

For those who have missed the Nagesh Kukunoor brand of cinema, Dhanak feels like a homecoming

Udta Punjab: Defying the Drumbeat

Udta Punjab gives you the reality of the north Indian state and not the mythic idea of it that pervades cinema and advertising

Achyut Lahkar: The Mobile Revolutionary

Achyut Lahkar who died recently will be remembered for creating plays that smelt of Assam and which brought the magic of cinema onto the stage

The Name of the Rose

Colour, class and tradition in a vase. The meditations of a flower girl

Papa CJ: Bare Naked Comedian

The stand-up comic who turns his own life into a laughing matter

Is There a Tyranny of the Tasting Menu?

We want a symphony on a plate but there aren’t many chefs who can deliver

Radhika Apte: ‘I’m Famous For the Right Reasons’

Radhika Apte breaks the pretty-face stereotype with her performance in a psychological thriller. The actor in conversation with Divya Unny

Benitha Perciyal: Earth Girl

Material has been at the crux of Benitha Perciyal’s art, embedded as it is in the philosophical notion of organic decay

Brij Mohan Anand: A Maverick’s Metaphors

A monograph of Brij Mohan Anand throws light on India’s history seen from a communist perspective

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