Art & Culture

Eavesdropping on the Akhtars

Lhendup G Bhutia

How the hilarious father-son gag on radio came to be

Mollywood Calling

Aanchal Bansal

In Meerut’s small but flourishing film industry in UP, the cast and crew juggle day jobs with their movie careers to make movies with a dehati flavour

Chronicles of Chandigarh

Janice Pariat

This exhibition may waver in its portraits of people, but it excels in hinting at stories

In ‘Joseph Anton’, Salman Rushdie alleges that an early book review of ‘The Satanic Verses’ in India Today by the journalist Madhu Jain, “lit the fire”. He has not forgiven her for that. Here is Madhu Jain’s version of what transpired before the publication of what was in all probability the first book review of ‘The Satanic Verses’.

Now Starring: Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Chinki Sinha

The life and struggle of an unlikely hero

A War With No End

Shruti Kapila

Prakash Jha’s forthcoming film, Chakravyuh, is set in the Naxal minefields. In a conversation with historian Shruti Kapila and Hartosh Singh Bal at the India Cambridge Summit, he speaks of the senselessness of India’s war on Maoists