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Amitav Ghosh reimagines memory, ecology and the limits of reason in Ghost-Eye

January 18, 2026 10:44 am

Unlike his previous works that have epochal events as backdrop, Ghosh writes his latest novel as a whodunit spanning more than five decades

Understanding Iran’s Crisis Through Vali Nasr’s Iran’s Grand Strategy

January 18, 2026 10:35 am

In Iran’s Grand Strategy, Nasr argues that the country’s inherent antagonism towards the West has only intensified over time and has come to define the Islamic republic’s strategic culture

OP Nayyar at 100: How his music set a young India’s heart beating with rhythm and desire

January 18, 2026 8:23 am

On his centenary, remembering OP Nayyar, a composer who infused sensuality into Hindi film music, made a star out of Asha Bhosle, and whose trendy songs — still remixed and replayed — never quite needed Lata Mangeshkar.

Waiting for raptors: A morning of birdwatching on the golden grasslands

January 17, 2026 1:04 pm

Brahminy kites are common yet distinct with their russet wings and white heads

A still from A Woman or Not To Be: How Adishakti challenges misogyny in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

January 18, 2026 8:24 am

With a female Hamlet, the production confronts the male gaze embedded in one of the world’s most performed plays

How London-based textile artist Ekta Kaul stitches identity, memory and belonging into cloth

January 17, 2026 12:56 pm

Kaul's book Kantha: Sustainable Textiles and Mindful Making was shortlisted for the RL Shep Memorial Book Award by the Textile Society of America

Dayanita Singh's new exhibit focuses on Zakir Hussain

Noted photo artist Dayanita Singh captures the life and rhythm of Ustad Zakir Hussain in a new photo exhibit

January 18, 2026 2:58 pm

Shot across four decades and shaped by memory and loss, Singh’s images of Hussain trace the quiet ways in which she learned to see.

Chef Anuradha Joshi Medhora on her mother's Hare Mirch ka Keema and the quiet power of comfort food

January 17, 2026 12:47 pm

In the dish that the chef's mother made with confidence and served sans plating, green chillies are the star of the show

People think I’m never alone. They’re right—and they’re wrong.

January 11, 2026 4:14 pm

It is not a grievance against people, or attention, or affection. It is an observation, long-held, finally named.

Rebel Grannies: meet the Indian women in their 70s and 80s who are lifting weights, building startups and travelling the world

January 11, 2026 10:44 pm

These women are not trying to defy age but are leading engaged lives, and in doing so, are inviting us to full-bodied, potent, spirited experiences.

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.