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Art & Culture

THE FASHIONABLE OUTSIDER

It has been a magical journey for the boy from a village in UP who reached Milan to be crowned as an original—a stylist with a dash of socialism

THE PRINCE OF PULP

The writer as one-stop entertainment industry and a motivational icon for neo-literate India

AN ACT OF COURAGE

The girl from Bangalore, and the daughter of a sporting icon, deviated from the father’s path to become a Bollywood original

2014 REVIEW: ART & CULTURE

Lamented • The Pulitzer Poet • Christie’s Again • Cultural Bully • The Indian Banksy • A Millennium for DDLJ • The New Bestselling Genre • The Yogi Departs

The Enduring Legend of Rajini

Lingaa is a rollercoaster that hurtles to a stop, leaving fans craving bigger thrills, but there is no end in sight for the cult of Rajinikanth

Meet the Disrupters

Is Hindi Cinema’s Generation Y ready to challenge the dominance of its established stars?

Black Pearl and Other Enchantments

The second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale has on display 94 artists from 30 countries—masters, saboteurs, and experimentalists

Delhi and All That Jazz

A talented pack of musicians, a growing number of venues and festivals, and an appreciative audience are pushing the capital’s jazz scene

Talking Head

Hussain Dalal is Bollywood’s most sought after dialogue writer. But that is not his only job

A Broken Record

The rarefied world of the Carnatic mandolin, orphaned after the untimely death of its pioneering exponent U Shrinivas, faces an existential crisis

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