A film questions the relevance of democracy and the ecology of its systems.
Never say die: After scoring big in her films over the last two years, which include Super 30, Batla House, and the critically acclaimed Love Sonia, Aankh Micholi marks Mrunal Thakur's debut in comedy.
Spain-based Nestor Navarro on his life as a puppeteer, and doing the best things in the world.
Bicky Singh, founder of SikhLens, the annual Sikh Arts and Film Festival in California, on bringing the festival to India, inspiring young filmmakers and creating awareness across the world about Sikh culture.
Actor Mrunal Thakur on her first comedy film, pursuing novelty and never giving up.
It was the first ‘pizza booth’ in Tricity offering giant slices and giant pizzas. Now, there are about 150 La Pino’z outlets in almost every state of India, says Sanam Kapoor, Founder of La Pino’z.
Fig at Museo has a hard time reconciling taste with the quest for health
As Eeb Allay Ooo! readies for its Berlinale premiere, actors Shardul Bhardwaj and Naina Sareen talk about their involvement with this sociopolitical satire
Saurabh Prashar reviews the maiden road safety book for Chandigarh by a Chandigarhian
Put together by World Comics India, a collective that promotes comics as a communication and empowerment tool for the marginalised, the book is an outcome of a workshop conducted by the organisation with around 50-60 Rohingya refugees in Kalindi Kunj and Nuh, Mewat.
Gokhale’s portrait of Shivaji Park restores the neighbourhood’s heterogeneous character, starting with some of the earliest historical evidence of the people who migrated here when Mumbai was still a cluster of islands and the only “natives” were fisherfolk and Adivasis.
In India for his debut tour, Tamil-Canadian rapper Shan Vincent de Paul feels like he’s finally come home.
Making Sushi
Belgian puppeteer Ronny Aelbrecht, who performed at the 18th Ishara International Puppet Theatre Festival, on the craft’s relevance.
Marathi movie Kastoori is the discomforting story of a childhood spent in manual scavenging and carrying out autopsies.
With Amit Aggarwal’s woven polymers and Rohit Bal’s embroidered denims, the Lakme Fashion Week Summer Resort 2020 came to a dramatic close.
The symposium also saw a video recording of a reading by American writer Lydia Davis of her new short story, Learning to Sing, while actor Dhritiman Chaterji read out Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa’s Tobacco Shop.
German-Turkish singer-songwriter Alev Lenz on her acapella album, singing quarter notes and dismantling patriarchy.
Writer-columnist Anoothi Vishal, who, as a journalist, had documented the start of the so-called boom at the beginning of the new millennium, has examined what makes a few restaurants work where so many others fail in her new book Business on a Platter (2019).
Friends remember Parikrama’s lead guitarist Sonam Sherpa, who passed away on Friday.
In her debut novel, titled Girl in White Cotton, Doshi looks at familial bonds and how they damn us and unravel us. She sets the tone with her opening sentence: "I would be lying if I said my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure."
Nandita Das on Manto & I, and how the book and her 2018 movie Manto, are deeply connected but not the same.
Guitarist-composer Shitalchandra Kulkarni on his latest album, Endless, which doesn’t have a genre.
Ramleela - The Ritual Theatre is a documentary that archives the never-ending celebration of one of the oldest forms of Indian folk theatre.




