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Art & Culture

Why We Leave Home

The story of a small Himalayan town in the Northeast

‘To a young man, every city looks like Paris’

Lucknow reflects in my work, the way I talk, the way I walk and the way I live my life.

‘Home and roots are synonymous with comfort and identity’

Originally, I am not from Kolkata. I came from the suburbs, and ended up forming a strong relationship with the city.

‘Most urban people don’t know where they belong’

Though I was born in Belwa, a small village in Bihar near the Indo-Nepal border, I was packed off to a boarding school in Bettiah after class four.

The Other Khan

An encounter with a Bollywood wannabe

After the Cinema of Disgust

A close reading of the renegade New Wave of Tamil Cinema

The witch and the spirits she has known

Ipsita Roy Chakraverti, who claims to be a witch, has written her third book. Supernatural beings, she maintains, are all around us

A Lost Idyll

In its almost 80 years of existence, Chennai’s Kalakshetra has become more about preservation than innovation. The appointment of a new director may breathe new life into this once-revolutionary institution

Crime or Punishment?

Sony TV’s Crime Patrol Dastak has a loyal following. But while some viewers find the show useful, others say it has made them paranoid

The Scars of Your Love

The woes of those who want to erase from their bodies inky tributes to people they once vowed to love forever

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