He’s played a street-smart vagabond, a dramatic leading man, even a joker. Now a fine performance as a version of himself caps an extraordinary 40-year career, but Anil Kapoor is in no mood to stop reinventing himself
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18 December 2020Celebrity reality shows work if their subjects are either fabulously crass or fabulously classy. Streaming services have some answers but does the genre have legs at a time when the pandemic has leashed even our fantasies?
11 December 2020New laws and the pandemic have changed ideas of masculinity and society’s expectations of men. Are they up for it?
11 December 2020Rajkummar Rao glimpses the next level of stardom with a buzzworthy performance as the urbane yet deeply compromised elitist in the movie based on Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger
04 December 2020Satyajit Ray and Soumitra Chatterjee showed what it is to be a man in modern India
20 November 2020From his debut as an adult Apu, Soumitra Chatterjee taught generations of Bengalis, especially the men, how to be at home in the world
15 November 2020Harshad Mehta, the stockbroker who made greed good for Indians and took the fall for it, is back in favour
12 November 2020CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
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 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 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