Art & Culture

Film Festival: Mise En City

Trisha Gupta

A vibrant new film festival portrays the multiplicity of claims on Indian cities, the freedoms they enable and the burdens that still weigh them down

The New Family Picture

Jai Arjun Singh

Mainstream Hindi cinema is slowly moving from a mythical gear to a more novelistic one where the families portrayed are less adarsh and more authentic

Eggs on A Breast

Freya

Preparing your body for lovemaking has its own charm

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