Art & Culture

The Lullaby That Led to a Dream

Akshaya Pillai

How a clip of Chandralekha Adoor crooning Rajahamsame went viral on YouTube and turned her life around

A Violent Music

Drashti Thakkar

From drinking goat blood to worshipping Satan, the story of Indian metal bands and how they have mellowed in recent times

At the Mercy of God

Shahina KK

Guruvayoor temple serves as a refuge for the elderly abandoned or turned out by their children

The Brazenness of Bollywood

Lhendup G Bhutia

Why their Saifai shindig was neither their first, nor will it be their last

Death in Tollywood

K Naresh Kumar

Is Chiranjeevi the reason for Uday Kiran’s suicide?

Getting Hammered

Lhendup G Bhutia

When a Christie’s auction comes to town

The Discovery of Dubstep

Aastha Atray Banan

Bangalore plays host to India’s first festival of this variation of electronic music, and surprisingly, as many as 2,000 people turn up

In more than 30 years of showbiz journalism, Mohamed has seen it all. The film critic and director reveals how movie stars became his surrogate family and why his new book is his last connection with the industry

Neverending Tinkle Times

Aastha Atray Banan

Old favourites Suppandi and Shikari Shambu are still around, but the 33-year-old magazine also has contemporary characters like the vampire who’s lost his fangs

Too Little, Too Late

Gunjeet Sra

The NH7 music festival arrived in concert-starved Delhi just last year, but it already feels stale, feeding the city’s appetite for appearances more than its love of music