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Art & Culture

Power of Two

Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah on three decades of togetherness and the creative dynamics of a partnership that tells the story of acting in India

The Dan Brown Code

The best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code lectures on science and religion, and why he’s adept at killing off characters, in his turn at the Penguin Annual Lecture in India

No Longer the Girl Next Door

Shraddha Kapoor wants to be known as more than the likeable actress-daughter of one of Bollywood’s controversial actors. A new girl is born post-Haider

Bards of the Desert

Rajasthan’s ambassadors of folk music are going global—and making it bigger at home

The Painter of Silence

Why the work of Gaitonde, the artist who defied language, feels so much at home at New York’s Guggenheim Museum

Memory vs Forgetting

Archives, impersonal and official, come to life thanks to new technology and the efforts of a few dedicated men and women

Bridge over Songs

A stretch on NH 47 in Kerala has become a synonym for great music. Meet Thaikkudam Bridge

Hello Hallyu, and Kamsahamnida!

The Korean cool, from popular culture to food, travels from the Northeast to the rest of India

Less is Cool

Time shrinks on stage as performances get shorter and smarter

Palette of the Profane

Nalini Malani enters the third and final chapter of her year-long retrospective in India, continuing to resist tags and seek out the invisible

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