On the absurdity of the nude dance of an NSUI president becoming such a big deal

The filmmaker may have taken a realistic turn with homosexuality in Bombay Talkies, but he deserves credit even for silly gay portrayals in commercial films like Dostana

The third of May marks one hundred years of the release of Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, the first ever Indian feature film. Paresh Mokashi, director of the Marathi film Harishchandrachi Factory, based on the making of Phalke’s film, recounts Phalke’s extraordinary adventure. As told to Madhavankutty Pillai

How to create opportunity out of exaggerated humiliation à la Azam Khan

The ethics of Bollywood trying to make capital out of tragedies like the Delhi rape

A writ petition to make watching porn a non-bailable offence has got everything upside down

The Survey of India’s case against Google for hosting a map making contest is laughable

Two helpless women find unexpected assistance

Linking the IPL with Maharashtra’s drought is clever but silly

Deconstructing a speech made by Jaya Bachchan on India’s new anti-rape Bill in which she says many things without saying anything

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…