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Kaveree Bamzai

Kaveree Bamzai is an author and a contributing writer with Open

Cinema
The Gift of Dunki

“Felt like a gift I got for my more than decade-long hustle in the industry,” says Taapsee Pannu

08 March 2024
Cinema
Kiran Rao: The Gentle Subversive

Kiran Rao’s rural satire about two new brides reaching their wrong destinations captures big truths with a light touch. She speaks to

08 March 2024
Cover Stories
In the Name of the Daughter

Nisha Pahuja with her Oscar-nominated documentary makes a compelling argument for justice

08 March 2024
Javed Akhtar
Cinema
Mombasa in Mumbai

Javed Akhtar turned lyricist only with Silsila in 1981, and only because its director Yash Chopra met all his impossible conditions

01 March 2024
Columns
Beauties and the Beasts

Poacher | Showtime

01 March 2024
Cinema
Varun Grover’s World of Words

An ode to a life that now seems a distant memory

23 February 2024
Cinema
Daughter India

The onscreen female soldier is married to the nation and will stop at nothing to defend the flag

23 February 2024
Cinema
Everyday Democracy

Quite appropriately called In That Top, the film explores the idea of a functioning democracy, which doesn’t begin and end with elections

16 February 2024
Columns
Awakening Dead Souls

Bhakshak | Feud: Capote vs. The Swans

16 February 2024
Feature
Love As Resistance

A new series captures real-life love stories in India across cultures, castes and religions

16 February 2024

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma 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

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

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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