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Yearender 2025: Five films where women pushed back and took control

December 27, 2025 10:08 pm

This year, several Indian films placed women firmly at the centre, allowing them agency, voice, and control over their lives.

What expands us makes us stronger

December 27, 2025 10:08 am

As we turn into the new year, I hope we learn to dance with the problems, accept that people will continue peopling, and do what excites us and energises us

AI can mimic Van Gogh. Can it replace the struggle that made him great?

December 27, 2025 3:47 pm

2025 was the year writers, teachers, and artists rode the AI wave, and felt the undertow of what they might lose.

One word, a whole world

December 26, 2025 11:08 am

When love contracts, it lives in the chest of one person. When it expands, it becomes the world. Jigar Moradabadi understood this paradox long before algorithms learned to measure attention.

Yearender 2025 in Books: What Arvind Subramanian, Naseeruddin Shah, Shashi Tharoor recommend

December 27, 2025 6:53 pm

Actors, Authors, Economists, Political Leaders tell us what they read and what made an impression

Inside Maria Goretti’s Goa home: Family recipes and a Christmas feast

December 27, 2025 9:55 am

At her restored 150-year-old Portuguese bungalow in Goa, the chef, TV host and former VJ, talks about food, traditional recipes and her culinary training

How Dhurandhar's repurposed qawwali with Pakistani origins engages with a shared cultural past, one the film ignores

December 27, 2025 7:02 am

Before Sahir Ludhianvi used it as inspiration, the original poem was penned by Sufi poet Ameer Bakhsh Sabri and composed by qawwal duo Ustad Fateh Ali and Ustad Mubarak Ali — Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s father and uncle.

Why the coconut palm is nature’s most useful tree

December 23, 2025 5:17 pm

The tree, whose USP is its nut, is a marvel of natural engineering that can survive gale-force winds and hurricanes

Suvir Saran details his South India travels

Travel within our shores

December 21, 2025 8:10 am

A trip through south India is bound to linger because its places don’t demand transformation; they allow it

Inside Joyce Arora’s kitchen: The home cook behind Bollywood’s favourite dishes

December 20, 2025 5:14 pm

Joyce's Christmas lunch is a bustling affair. She single-handedly cooks for over 40 people, with enough leftovers for friends and family to take home

SUNDAY EYE PHOTOS

Ms Marvel to Minnal Murali: Superheroes closer home

July 16, 2022 4:27 pm

Not just Hollywood but many Indian superheroes have been among the audiences' favourites.

Saim Sadiq and Pakistan’s Moment in the Sun & India-Pak camaraderie

July 12, 2022 10:32 am

Saim Sadiq took seven years to make Joyland which is a cis-trans romance in a conservative family drama.

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Sreelekha Mitra’s Hour of Glory

November 07, 2021 3:00 pm

By bringing Sreelekha Mitra centre stage in Once Upon a Time in Calcutta, director Aditya Vikram Sengupta has given the actor, in her more-than-two-decade career, a role of a lifetime.

The eye of a genius: The cinematic universe of Satyajit Ray

May 24, 2020 1:35 pm

Satyajit Ray was a quintessential humanist who used the camera with empathy to tell stories. Stories that capture the beauty and severity of life in rural Bengal, decaying feudalism, the struggles and aspirations of the Bengali middle class and its conflict with dogmatic religion. His films told stories in ways that only a humanist of his stature could.