Mayank Shekhar runs the pop-culture website TheW14.com
The memoir of a filmmaker who shuttles between the frivolous and the fantastic
This reassessment of Hrishikesh Mukherjee will inspire you to binge on his ever-relevant movies
The best Indian film I saw in 2014 was a Marathi movie. No surprise there
Have you heard of someone called S Sukhdev? It’s about time you did
How Sulemani Keeda takes a wonderfully angular look at Bollywood
Will there ever be another star like SRK, selling aspiration to middle-class India?
Why Rajat Kapoor’s Ankhon Dekhi is the most underrated Hindi film of 2014
How Bollywood has reversed the evolution of the Indian male
In film censorship, it’s the man or woman on top that matters
How HAHK, India’s greatest hit in 1994, causes ‘haha’ in 2014
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…
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
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 is the author of several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm
Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.
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