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 2020Writer-director Alankrita Shrivastava creates women characters who express their most intimate desires
09 October 2020Divided, 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 2020A new food atlas powered by the Ministry of Women and Child Development will help the country eat and produce better
25 September 2020Actors who bring heaps of talent and the whiff of lives well lived outside the Bollywood bubble
18 September 2020Kangana Ranaut plays her biggest role as the demolition diva at Bollywood’s weakest moment
18 September 2020A photographer captures the sorrows and stillness of a city under lockdown
11 September 2020Rhea Chakraborty is being portrayed as an unlikely villain in the messy aftermath of her ex-lover Sushant Singh Rajput’s death
04 September 2020A new scripted reality show reveals celebrities are uncannily like us
28 August 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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