Art & Culture

Mohit Takalkar: The Minimal Master

Shreya Ray

Neither commercial nor experimental, Mohit Takalkar has developed his own stage idiom. And now it’s winning awards

Himmat Shah: A Lone Figure of Grandeur

Rosalyn D’Mello

The rawness of emotion and the earthiness of material give the sculptures of Himmat Shah a primeval aura

William Dalrymple: Picture This

Nandini Nair

William Dalrymple was a keen photographer before he became an author. The cell phone has returned him to that abandoned love.

Tarun Bhartiya: The Last Songs of Life

Janice Pariat

Tarun Bhartiya’s documentary is a celebration of the essential Northeast whose music carries the sighs and sorrows of the soil

Vicky Kaushal: The Realist

Divya Unny

Vicky Kaushal, one of Hindi cinema’s most sought-after faces, is striving to break the mould with every film

The Mark of A Modernist

Somak Ghoshal

Although Nasreen Mohamedi lost most of her motor functions, she did manage to retain control over her right hand. Her last work remains ethereal, meticulous but also filled with palpable gravitas

Dancing by the Yamuna

Divya Unny

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and the art of oversized soft power

Production Designers: Scene Sealers

Mohini Chaudhuri

They give form to a filmmaker’s vision, yet they toil in relative anonymity. The production designers of Bollywood have proved their genius in recent films

Sonam Kapoor: Girl Uninterrupted

Divya Unny

Having pulled off the best performance of her career, Sonam Kapoor reveals why she can’t talk of Neerja in the past tense and why superstardom is boring