Nandini Nair
As editor, columnist and literary impresario, Anil Dharker was an original
The greatest spy novelist fictionalised his life while his fiction often seemed too real
The celebrated and controversial South Korean director’s films were replete with gore, violence and sex, but they also exposed our hypocrisies
Patel was a lone ranger in a party known for its groupism. With his death, Sonia Gandhi has lost the golden bridge linking her family to the party. And it can get very lonely up there in a castle of melting wax
Satyajit Ray and Soumitra Chatterjee showed what it is to be a man in modern India
From his debut as an adult Apu, Soumitra Chatterjee taught generations of Bengalis, especially the men, how to be at home in the world