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Kaveree Bamzai

Kaveree Bamzai is an author and a contributing writer with Open

How to Be a Modern Man
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How to Be a Modern Man

New laws and the pandemic have changed ideas of masculinity and society’s expectations of men. Are they up for it?

11 December 2020
Rao’s Range
Special
Rao’s Range

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 2020
Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): Rays of Light
Cinema
Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): Rays of Light

Satyajit Ray and Soumitra Chatterjee showed what it is to be a man in modern India

20 November 2020
Cinema
Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): A Global Humanist

From 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 2020
Harshad Mehta: The Return of Chutzpah
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Harshad Mehta: The Return of Chutzpah

Harshad Mehta, the stockbroker who made greed good for Indians and took the fall for it, is back in favour

12 November 2020
Ali Fazal: At Home In the World
Cinema
Ali Fazal: At Home In the World

Whether 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 2020
In Memoriam
Sean Connery (1930-2020): Oh James!

That was the frequent lament of the women onscreen whenever Sean Connery's 007 appeared. More often than not, it was justified

01 November 2020
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

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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