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Kaveree Bamzai

Kaveree Bamzai is an author and a contributing writer with Open

A Walk Down Memory Lane
Feature
A Walk Down Memory Lane

One of India’s most romanticised streets in history is being restored and given back to pedestrians

30 October 2020
The Invisible Other
Cinema
The Invisible Other

What makes us who we are? Increasingly in popular culture it is who we are opposed to

23 October 2020
Screen Test
Feature
Screen Test

The ratings system is broken and the television industry knows it

16 October 2020
The Body Couturier
Features
The Body Couturier

Bhanu 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 2020
Alankrita Shrivastava: Sense and Sensuality
Cinema
Alankrita Shrivastava: Sense and Sensuality

Writer-director Alankrita Shrivastava creates women characters who express their most intimate desires

09 October 2020
Broken Bollywood
Cover Story
Broken Bollywood

Divided, self-referential in its storytelling, all too keen to celebrate mediocrity, its reputation in tatters and work largely stalled, the Mumbai film industry has hit rock bottom

02 October 2020
The National Food Atlas: More Than A Mouthful
Feature
The National Food Atlas: More Than A Mouthful

A new food atlas powered by the Ministry of Women and Child Development will help the country eat and produce better

25 September 2020
The New Hero
Cinema
The New Hero

Actors who bring heaps of talent and the whiff of lives well lived outside the Bollywood bubble

18 September 2020
Kangana Ranaut: The Arsonist’s Act
Feature
The Arsonist’s Act

Kangana Ranaut plays her biggest role as the demolition diva at Bollywood’s weakest moment

18 September 2020
The Aura of Absence
Books
The Aura of Absence

A photographer captures the sorrows and stillness of a city under lockdown

11 September 2020

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

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 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

Makarand R Paranjape

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

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