Features

The Brutal Honesty of Kim Ki-duk (1960-2020)

Ullekh NP

The celebrated and controversial South Korean director’s films were replete with gore, violence and sex, but they also exposed our hypocrisies

The Dog That Didn’t Pee

Kaveree Bamzai

Celebrity reality shows work if their subjects are either fabulously crass or fabulously classy. Streaming services have some answers but does the genre have legs at a time when the pandemic has leashed even our fantasies?

Defining Indian Cuisine

Shylashri Shankar

Do caste and social hierarchies create barriers to our culinary exchanges?

Priya Darshini: The Pulse of the Periphery

Divya Unny

Indian singer Priya Darshini, based in New York, is a Grammy nominee for her live album, with each song recorded in a single take

Walking With the Enemy

Rahul Pandita

How a team of Odisha Police’s Special Operation Group traversed hostile terrain to rescue an injured Maoist

A Time to Deliver

Nikita Doval

Cloud kitchens have emerged as the biggest trend of the dine-out culture in a pandemic year

Rajinikanth: Action! Finally

V Shoba

Rajinikanth keeps his promise and enters politics. How does it change the dynamics of the battle for Tamil Nadu 2021?

Dancer Like No One Else

Nandini Nair

He expanded the possibilities and aesthetics of Indian dance

Modi steals show for BJP, again

Amita Shah

After 15 years in power, Nitish Kumar’s party seemed to be slipping to the third position in the seat after the RJD and the BJP, as counting went late into the night