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Art & Culture

Calcutta Once and Forever

An archive offers images of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries on everything from matchboxes to record covers

The Akhtar Family Legacy

A way with words is almost a family hand-me-down for Javed and his children Farhan and Zoya, descended as they are from a long line of poets. But what each of them values, above all, is an original voice

The Making of an Audience

Can playing great music on the radio or the internet tempt people into buying songs they’ve never heard before?

How Hindi Films Got So Good

...and started looking beyond tired formulas and megastars and multi-starrers and all those yawns

Delivery Men

A cluster of villages in a remote corner of Meghalaya has a most unusual tradition. The midwives here are male

Irom in Her Soul

Theatre artiste Ojas SV has taken Irom Sharmila’s story to 15 states with her moving solo production

The Indian Who Came before Wolverine

The sixties were a glorious time for Bengali sci-fi comics. The Comic Book Project is bringing these back to life

A Mystic in Bollywood

Tochi Raina, the voice behind the dreamy Saibo and grungy Dilli, on meditation, meltdown and the strains of success

India’s First Photo Festival

Everybody’s snaps attract an audience online, but the Delhi Photo Festival offers image-makers one that’s democratic and discerning

The Maverick Behind DK Bose DK Bose DK

Music director Ram Sampath, who once successfully sued Rakesh and Rajesh Roshan for Rs 2 crore, tells it like it is

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