A shop in Mumbai which tailors clothes for lawyers and judges turned 100 recently
15 October 2009Tulsi Ramsay, the father of Indian ghost dramas, explains the rules of the game
02 September 2009What happens when your identity is stolen and used by another man? The true story of one Shobhalal is behind the film, Mohandas, which premieres 4 September
27 August 2009You knew him as the villain’s firangi henchman. But what was he doing before that? You won’t believe it. He tells all in a book he has written
26 August 2009In a film, you hear sounds other than dialogues and music: the hum of a lift, a sofa creak, a dog bark. These sounds come from improbable places. They are works of invisible artists called Foleys
19 August 2009Some film makers hope for the day when producers and the public will be liberated from the ‘star’. (By the way, we carry this essay only because a Hrithik interview fell through)
13 August 2009How the foot soldiers of a social networking website took the place of reporters on the streets of Tehran, and why this transformation in conflict reporting should annoy despots everywhere
29 June 2009Dubai is astonishing. But sometimes, when you are standing there, you expect a man’s voice to suddenly shout ‘pack up’, and everything to disappear
19 June 2009The Bandra-Worli sea link, the country’s most astonishing bridge, is ready to open after an astonishingly long wait
19 June 2009For weeks we followed the production of a low-budget film inspired by the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Here it is, the insanely comic making of a tragic film
18 June 2009Brahma 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
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