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Art & Culture
Facebook to Bhaktbook
A Hindu devotional song calls out to Facebookers seen as sinners in need of redemption
Of Raised Eyebrows
If women dancers faced the ‘devadasi stigma’, men didn’t have it easy either in a field where there was no readymade space for them. The story of VP Dhananjayan’s struggle to break away from Kalakshetra and establish himself as a solo male Bharata Natyam dancer
In Search of the Original Lovers
23 years after it released, a remake reopens the conversation about Aashiqui. What made a simple romance starring relative unknowns such a huge hit?
The First Movie
The third of May marks one hundred years of the release of Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, the first ever Indian feature film. Paresh Mokashi, director of the Marathi film Harishchandrachi Factory, based on the making of Phalke’s film, recounts Phalke’s extraordinary adventure. As told to Madhavankutty Pillai
Not a Model Millionaire
Vikram Chatwal is worth half a billion dollars, has friends among the elite of India and the US, and has dated some of the world’s most beautiful women. Why does someone like him keep going into self-destruct mode?
I Am Both
For fashion designer Arjun Saluja, clothes are a way to transcend gender lines
In the Garden of Theatrical Delights
An extraordinary production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale breaks the monotony of theatre as usual
When Nana Patekar Came Visiting
…and said the sort of things that are never said at home
The Conductor On Route 10A
Fleeing at the sight of Shivaji Rao Gaikwad—now known as Rajinikanth
The Poet of Poop
The mystery of why Joginder, father of the fabled lota dance, has fans just about everywhere. Even abroad
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