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Anuparna Roy returns to Venice with Lovers in the Blue Night, a story of migrants and forbidden desire
August 30, 2026 11:15 am
Director Anuparna Roy, who returns to the Venice Film Festival with her second film Lovers in the Blue Night, on mining the personal, casting friends and the struggle of those on the margins.
I’m a greedy actor...I would like to play a villain like Joker: Nimisha Sajayan
August 28, 2026 6:50 pm
Actor Nimisha Sajayan on gaining 14 kg to play the lead in Babita Singh Reporting, finding herself in the character’s quiet transformation and why she wants to keep surprising herself with every role.
What Easter Island’s fallen moai can teach us about environmental destruction
August 18, 2026 8:30 pm
The contested story of Easter Island’s ecological collapse offers a warning for a world still plundering its forests, mountains and oceans in the name of development
Best political satire? Ex-minister, filmmaker, professor pick
August 15, 2026 2:24 pm
From cartoons and cinema to theatre and literature, humour has given dissent a voice when direct criticism could not. This Independence Day, we asked five voices from across the cultural world to choose a favourite work of political satire and tell us why it endures
Operation Safed Sagar: Netflix’s Kargil series brings Indian Air Force’s untold story to screen
August 08, 2026 6:26 pm
Operation Safed Sagar, headlined by Jimmy Shergill and Siddharth, revisits the Indian Air Force operation and the young pilots of the Golden Arrows squadron, with a focus on the human stories behind the 1999 conflict.
How the border village of Barmer is an international supplier of unique embroidery
August 06, 2026 10:42 am
The bharat embroidery tradition, that finds its origin in Pakistan's Sindh, has been the identity of a community of craftspeople for over five decades
How Chef AliAkbar Baldiwala brings Bohri home cooking, hospitality and shared domestic life together
August 01, 2026 3:30 pm
The Slink & Bardot chef traces his love for food from mosque community meals and family kitchens to a home where weekly menus, Bohri recipes and household labour are shared
'I let Naseeruddin Shah direct himself': Rehmat director Gurvinder Singh
August 03, 2026 4:23 pm
Gurvinder Singh on reimagining Ajeet Cour’s short stories for his latest directorial Rehmat, rejecting background scores, and working with Suvinder Vicky and Naseeruddin Shah.
Why Diljit Dosanjh's Satluj is as much about Punjabi poetry as it is about Jaswant Singh Khalra
July 19, 2026 6:44 pm
From Kabir to Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Surjit Singh Patar and Pash, poetry runs through the fabric of Honey Trehan’s Satluj that tells the story of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra.
From Duckback raincoats to the 2005 deluge: Author Jerry Pinto's love letter to Mumbai's monsoon
July 18, 2026 9:48 am
Perhaps the flooding of the city is nature’s revenge on us. In Mumbai, the sea spits up thousands of kilos of plastic waste on the seafront at Marine Drive. Water accumulates and we watch
EYE PHOTOS
Matinee idols
December 27, 2015 1:54 am
Between 2003 and 2005, photographer Shahid Datawala received a grant from Sarai for a project on cinema and cinema-going culture in Delhi.
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