Shaikh Ayaz

Actor Ashok Kumar wore many hats in his life, including those of a painter of nudes and master homeopath

Salim Khan on his superstar son not realising his true acting potential, his hyphenated relationship with Javed Akhtar, and his ‘mother love’

Ali Akbar Mehta is nervous about his first solo show. There’s the added pressure of being Tyeb Mehta’s grandson

Fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee and his idea of Indianness

Aatish Taseer believes writing is an ‘intense form of concentration’, and when immersed in it, he often feels he can live without friends, family or lovers

Kalki Koechlin on being objectified right from childhood and her quest for an identity

Underrated most of his working life, Vijay Anand’s work is being referenced by a bunch of admirers like Anurag Kashyap, Imtiaz Ali, Sriram Raghavan, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and the Akhtars

And why no one but the producer really knows how much money a film has made

Kunaal, Siddharth and Aditya: the Roy Kapurs on how they bumped into each other in the same industry where their grandfather had lost his fortune

A way with words is almost a family hand-me-down for Javed and his children Farhan and Zoya, descended as they are from a long line of poets. But what each of them values, above all, is an original voice