Art & Culture

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

Oscar Fatigue

Nikhil Taneja

Are they becoming colour-blind and getting stuck in the predictable?

NSD Theatre Festival: Light to Fade

Shreya Ray

The theatre festival by National School of Drama needs to be more alive to change

Bhupen Khakhar: The Autodidact

Trisha Gupta

The sacred blends with the erotic, and popular culture with medieval miniatures in the art of Bhupen Khakhar

Satish Gujral’s work casts a spell on viewers with its transformative power. While he infuses humanity and warmth into the images of his subjects, his self-portraits are more brutal, depicting a range of emotions by deft modulation of tones and textures

Lillete Dubey: ‘It’s a never-ending trip’

Divya Unny

The woman who has given an Indian voice to English theatre completes 25 years on stage. Lillete Dubey on her life and art in conversation with Divya Unny