Art & Culture

Badshah of Bad Taste

Sudha G Tilak

SRK’s big Diwali release is a damp cracker, and an offensive one at that

The Chameleon Effect

Janice Pariat

A photographic show that provokes viewers to question what images mean to them

The Inheritance of Loss

Rosalyn D’Mello

The story of India’s contemporary photography movement is ridden with egoistic tussles. It’s no wonder then that it has taken so long for the country to host an international photo festival

Dev Anand’s Never-Never Land

Rahul Bhatia

In the recent movies of this hero who refuses to retire, anything can happen to him, and to you, the viewer. So beware

Music to Their Ears

Shubha Mudgal

How some traditional musicians, ignored by the mainstream, are learning the ropes of self-publishing and online distribution

The Shape of Intolerance

Hartosh Singh Bal

AK Ramanujan’s essay—Three Hundred Ramayanas, recently removed from Delhi University’s syllabus—must be read, not argued over

Three Hundred Ramayanas

AK Ramanujan

The essay Delhi University deemed unfit for its students

Still Life

Shruti Ravindran

At the Delhi Photo Festival, Sanjeev Saith marks a return to photography with intensely personal cellphone camera photos that he took to preserve memories of his elderly parents

When He Sang Mere Sapnon Ki Rani

Clarence Peterson

75-year-old guitarist Clarence Peterson, who was associated with Jagjit Singh for 40 years, remembers his friend

Bollywood’s Revised Cheque List

Shaikh Ayaz

Kareena Kapoor looks close to being paid on par with male film stars, but if you see this as a sign of a shakeup in the Hindi film industry’s salary structure, think again