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Kaveree Bamzai

Kaveree Bamzai is an author and a contributing writer with Open

Cinema
Every Woman’s a Tigress

For Indian movies, these are still radical ideas, and who better than Balan, in her unsmiling, solitary alter ego, to articulate them?

25 June 2021
Ramesh Sharma: Mahatma’s Messenger
Cinema
Ramesh Sharma: Mahatma’s Messenger

Ramesh Sharma’s award-winning documentary on the Gandhian concept of non-violence is gaining international attention

25 June 2021
Sense of Entitlement
Cinema
Sense of Entitlement

The tragedy of second-generation starlings in Bollywood

18 June 2021
Sushant Singh Rajput: Forever Young
Cinema
Sushant Singh Rajput: Forever Young

It’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 2021
Cinema
Fear Is the Key

Samantha Akkineni is one of the few actors to talk about the impostor syndrome

11 June 2021
Two Is a Family
Cinema
Two Is a Family

Nearly 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 2021
Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944-2021): A Master Redeemer of the Uprooted
Feature
Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944-2021): A Master Redeemer of the Uprooted

The art and idealism of a filmmaker who was always searching

11 June 2021
Cinema
The Internet Remembers

Public figures have to be extra careful about what they say, no matter how young and naïve they are

04 June 2021
The Real Thrill
Feature
The Real Thrill

Movies and online streaming shows are dipping into real life characters for drama, action and suspense

04 June 2021
Feature
They'll be There For Us

A 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 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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