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Kaveree Bamzai

Kaveree Bamzai is an author and a contributing writer with Open

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
Modi at 70: A Style Statement
Features
Modi at 70: A Style Statement

At 70, he is fighting fit

11 September 2020
Rhea Chakraborty: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
Cinema
Rhea Chakraborty: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest

Rhea Chakraborty is being portrayed as an unlikely villain in the messy aftermath of her ex-lover Sushant Singh Rajput’s death

04 September 2020
Star Gazing
Features
Star Gazing

A new scripted reality show reveals celebrities are uncannily like us

28 August 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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