For Indian movies, these are still radical ideas, and who better than Balan, in her unsmiling, solitary alter ego, to articulate them?
25 June 2021Ramesh Sharma’s award-winning documentary on the Gandhian concept of non-violence is gaining international attention
25 June 2021It’s been a year since the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, a rising star who never quite fulfilled his early potential, but whose alleged suicide exposed much of the ugliness inherent in Bollywood’s beautiful people
14 June 2021Samantha Akkineni is one of the few actors to talk about the impostor syndrome
11 June 2021Nearly two decades after their first indie film, and with a triumphant second season of The Family Man to their credit, Raj and DK are now Bollywood’s quirkiest storytellers
11 June 2021The art and idealism of a filmmaker who was always searching
11 June 2021Public figures have to be extra careful about what they say, no matter how young and naïve they are
04 June 2021Movies and online streaming shows are dipping into real life characters for drama, action and suspense
04 June 2021A show about six young people living in New York in the mid-90s comes at a time when we have never been more isolated and socially distanced from each other. There are no friendly couches to crash on, no huddles to bind us, and no shoulders to cry on
28 May 2021Brahma 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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