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Art & Culture

Beware Bollywood

Living in Mumbai can stifle the talent of any creative filmmaker, especially one who draws on his familiarity with India beyond the big cities

Bollywood’s Number Game

And why no one but the producer really knows how much money a film has made

Family Reunion, Filmi Style

Kunaal, Siddharth and Aditya: the Roy Kapurs on how they bumped into each other in the same industry where their grandfather had lost his fortune

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

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