New laws and the pandemic have changed ideas of masculinity and society’s expectations of men. Are they up for it?
11 December 2020Rajkummar 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 2020Brahma 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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