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Rachel Dwyer

Rachel Dwyer is an author and culture critic based in London. She has written extensively on Hindi cinema and is an Open contributor

Cinema
Mise-en-Soviet

Can Indian cinema make it big in Russia again?

06 May 2022
Cover Stories
Director’s Roar

The globalisation of South Indian cinema began with Rajamouli

01 April 2022
Columns
Club Istanbul

Identity markers in a new Turkish series echo the melodrama of Hindi cinema

18 March 2022
Cover Stories
The Heart of the Song

Lata sang for all of us. Her voice was instantly recognisable. Whoever the star, she brought us into the heroine’s inner life

11 February 2022
Columns
The Scent of Mumbai

A perfumed passage to nostalgia

14 January 2022
Columns
Power on Trial

Jai Bhim and the search for justice in Indian cinema

19 November 2021
Special
Romancing the Pathan

Tracing the masculinity of star power in Hindi cinema

15 October 2021
Columns
The Hippy Gaze

India through the prism of counterculture

03 September 2021
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Cinema
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Parsi journey across history and cultures—with a stopover at Irani café

23 July 2021
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Columns
The Pilgrim’s Progress

From the martyrdom of Thomas Becket to the holy relics of Hindi cinema

18 June 2021

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

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 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

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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