Importance of being Earnest
Who wants to be a hero? Not Deepak Dobriyal. Playing convincing characters, he says, is challenging enough
06 April 2011
Tanu, Manu and the Real Stuff
After two ‘inspired by’ movies, director Aanand L Rai finds his groove, keeping it ‘honest’ with his third film
18 March 2011
Blood Portrait
A Pakistani artist drew his own blood, half a litre of it, to paint this portrait. But the wait for a visa is discolouring it
02 March 2011
Scheduled Cast
Almost every big-budget movie is losing money in Bollywood. And yet, even if a small-budget movie makes thrice its cost, the industry does not count it as a blockbuster. Welcome to the warped economics of la-la-land
19 January 2011
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
MJ Akbar is an MP and the author of, most recently, Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah’s IslamWhile
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