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Kaveree Bamzai

Kaveree Bamzai is an author and a contributing writer with Open

Cinema
Rise of the Beta Male

The alpha woman gets to have a happy-ever-after with her beta man

23 July 2021
Back to the Office...
Feature
Back to the Office...

…with trepidation as the Covid threat still looms

23 July 2021
Cinema
Shilpa Shetty 2.0

A fact without any sexist intent

16 July 2021
Is It the End of the Khan supremacy?
Cover Stories
Sunset on Khan Market?

After three decades of entertaining India and the diaspora, the era of Bollywood’s reigning trinity seems to be fading out

16 July 2021
Cinema
Discovering India

Bhediya can help put the beautiful Arunachal Pradesh on the map of the world

09 July 2021
Sach Kahun Toh: An Autobiography
Special
Hard Truths

Neena Gupta’s memoir is about persistence, patience and the ability to pick up the pieces

09 July 2021
Bollywood Family Values
Feature
Bollywood Family Values

Blended families, co-parenting by exes, single parent surrogacies and households headed by women. Middle-class cosmopolitan social norms and celebrity values have never been more similar

09 July 2021
Dilip Kumar (1922-2021): The Original
Feature
Dilip Kumar (1922-2021): The Original

With the flicker of an eyelash, an artfully displaced lock of hair, a careful modulation of his voice, he could make women swoon and men weep. Muhammed Yusuf Khan was the last of a gilded trinity that defined an era

09 July 2021
Cinema
Amit Masurkar: King of the Jungle

With his new movie, director Amit Masurkar returns to the forest with a quiet, contemplative film about who really is the beast amongst us

02 July 2021
Cinema
Business Class Bollywood

A $3 trillion economy does not have a substantial middle class that spends, which means the model of film consumption today is business class

02 July 2021

Authors

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 president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

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

TCA Raghavan

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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