Rajkummar 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 2020Whether he is the beloved Guddu Bhaiya in Mirzapur or the updated Cousin Andrew in Kenneth Branagh’s forthcoming Death on the Nile, Ali Fazal is showing us how to be a global star
06 November 2020That was the frequent lament of the women onscreen whenever Sean Connery's 007 appeared. More often than not, it was justified
01 November 2020One of India’s most romanticised streets in history is being restored and given back to pedestrians
30 October 2020What makes us who we are? Increasingly in popular culture it is who we are opposed to
23 October 2020The ratings system is broken and the television industry knows it
16 October 2020Bhanu Athaiya started as an artist trained at JJ School of Art but ended her career at 91 as a pioneering costume designer for Hindi cinema. It was a life of remarkable work and incredible beauty
16 October 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