Rachel Dwyer is an author and culture critic based in London. She has written extensively on Hindi cinema and is an Open contributor
Spring is also a season of love and romance amid the blooming flowers
The Indian service industry
No matter how long the list, there’s always a film I miss
When Indian films celebrate the West for all the wrong reasons
Water as a giver and destroyer of life is a widespread cultural norm
Of bagpipes and Indian popular culture
What Salman Khan’s stardom says about sexuality and ageing in India
My train journey across Hindi cinema
The matinee masculinity of Hindi cinema’s biggest star
Desire in Indian cinema is best expressed in dream sequences
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, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
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 an author and columnist. Views are personal.
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