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Kaveree Bamzai

Kaveree Bamzai is an author and a contributing writer with Open

Bollywood Family Values
Feature
Bollywood Family Values

Blended families, co-parenting by exes, single parent surrogacies and households headed by women. Middle-class cosmopolitan social norms and celebrity values have never been more similar

09 July 2021
Dilip Kumar (1922-2021): The Original
Feature
Dilip Kumar (1922-2021): The Original

With the flicker of an eyelash, an artfully displaced lock of hair, a careful modulation of his voice, he could make women swoon and men weep. Muhammed Yusuf Khan was the last of a gilded trinity that defined an era

09 July 2021
Cinema
Amit Masurkar: King of the Jungle

With his new movie, director Amit Masurkar returns to the forest with a quiet, contemplative film about who really is the beast amongst us

02 July 2021
Cinema
Business Class Bollywood

A $3 trillion economy does not have a substantial middle class that spends, which means the model of film consumption today is business class

02 July 2021
Cinema
Every Woman’s a Tigress

For Indian movies, these are still radical ideas, and who better than Balan, in her unsmiling, solitary alter ego, to articulate them?

25 June 2021
Ramesh Sharma: Mahatma’s Messenger
Cinema
Ramesh Sharma: Mahatma’s Messenger

Ramesh Sharma’s award-winning documentary on the Gandhian concept of non-violence is gaining international attention

25 June 2021
Sense of Entitlement
Cinema
Sense of Entitlement

The tragedy of second-generation starlings in Bollywood

18 June 2021
Sushant Singh Rajput: Forever Young
Cinema
Sushant Singh Rajput: Forever Young

It’s been a year since the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, a rising star who never quite fulfilled his early potential, but whose alleged suicide exposed much of the ugliness inherent in Bollywood’s beautiful people

14 June 2021
Cinema
Fear Is the Key

Samantha Akkineni is one of the few actors to talk about the impostor syndrome

11 June 2021
Two Is a Family
Cinema
Two Is a Family

Nearly two decades after their first indie film, and with a triumphant second season of The Family Man to their credit, Raj and DK are now Bollywood’s quirkiest storytellers

11 June 2021

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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