Art & Culture

Fluid Form

Avantika Bhuyan

Dancing in water is about letting go of the human urge to control, says choreographer Chris Lechner

How the Stage Got Upstaged

Anjum Katyal

With his Third Theatre, pioneer Badal Sircar (1925—2011) took the art of drama off the conventional stage, straight to the people

Looking at It This Way

K Satchidanandan

Poet laureate K Satchidanandan remembers the Kanimozhi he knew and admired

Get up, Stand up…

Akshay Sawai

‘Don’t give up the fight,’ commanded Bob Marley. As if on cue, India has a lively bunch of comedians standing up for our right to laughter. They make the perfect accomplices in our hunt for humour

Goa and the Filmmaker

Ajit Duara

Dil Chahta Hai to Dum Maro Dum marks a decade of the Goa film. Yet, has the state really found a chronicler of its true story?

Why We Still Love Apache Indian (and Bryan Adams)

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

As a country, we love songs we can sing along with. Perhaps because that takes us back to being the cool young kids we once were

When What’s Queer Is Not

Trisha Gupta

For nearly 30 years now, photographer Sunil Gupta has been trying to capture Indian gaydar in natural light

First, the Cause

Rahul Bhatia

How a bold new venture hopes to shake things up in the movie financing business by focusing exclusively on social themes that can work at the box office