“It’s not easy to be an actor. These girls will never know what it takes and how much one has to sacrifice,” she said to me that day as her elder daughter Janhvi threw a tantrum about her make-up. Fan, critic and actor Divya Unny remembers
28 February 2018R Balki brings menstrual health to the big screen. He tells how the film can educate the young
14 February 2018Sanjay Mishra and the raw intimacy of being rooted
31 January 2018A short film on the trauma of renting a home as a single woman in Mumbai makes it to Sundance. Director Reema Sengupta in conversation with Divya Unny
10 January 2018From period dramas to biopics, Hindi cinema looks for the big picture
04 January 2018Sharmila Tagore on her co-star’s humility and compassion
07 December 2017The dream of the Iranian master Majid Majidi is to tell stories like Satyajit Ray did
29 November 2017Despite the controversies, the independent film flag was held up at the International Film Festival of India
28 November 2017Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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