Mandar and Dakshayani Karanjkar promote classical music among the younger generation.

With intense study and research involved in reading and selecting the poetry, the idea was to push the boundaries of form and music, with both young and experienced actors bringing their own vision to the idea.

Government College, Malerkotla, Punjab, turns a stationery store into an exercise in honesty. The price for each item — pens from Rs 5 to 20 and notebooks from Rs 10 to 30 — is pasted above the packet and a money box is placed on the table.

A tribute to her artist grandfather, Michelle Poonawalla’s exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, blends the strength of the old masters with the digital advances of the 21st century

Wildlife biologist and photographer Latika Nath documents the life, culture and fashion of the tribes in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley

Costume and production designers of Thugs of Hindostan on what went into envisioning the world in which the film is set.

Confrontations with the inevitability of death shape the works in Yardena Kurulkar’s show in Mumbai

Diwali is marked by lights, colours and flavours. We speak to artists, designers and chefs on the significance of each of these elements

Of the extremely scarce pieces, flute maestro Pannalal Ghosh, a disciple of Ustad Allauddin Khan of the Maihar gharana, created a raag named Deepawali.

Parvathy on Women in Cinema Collective, and how it differs from Bollywood’s handling of #MeToo cases.

A new space in Mumbai hints at the reemergence of gaming parlours.

Ashish Pandey’s film explores the mind of a child in strife-ridden Kashmir.

Stand-up comic Hasan Minhaj on the famous White House Correspondents’ Dinner, using pop culture references and his latest show on Netflix.

Half the world’s problems would probably vanish the day people stopped dictating to other adults how they should live, and behave.

At Love Sex Aur Dhokha’s screening, the discussion veered towards the invasion of technology in our lives, and the #MeToo movement

Even a few years back, the world was confined to the big screen and the box. Today, you can’t think of viewing choices without taking into reckoning Netflix and Amazon and Disney.

The latest edition of Mumbai Film Festival will be remembered as the one which was buffeted by the #MeToo movement, and in which some excellent films became “collateral damage”. Ironically, it is also the one which showed solid programming across all sections.

The project ‘Folktales of Punjab’ is publishing story books for children in Shahmukhi and Gurmukhi — Punjabi’s two scripts — to bridge the gap created by the Partition

Peepal Farm, a stray animal recovery centre and organic farm in the Himalayan foothills, is celebrating a caring Diwali this year

Shruti Gupta’s short documentary, Kathputli, puts the lives of manual scavengers under the spotlight

Subodh Bhave on his movie Aani... Dr Kashinath Ghanekar and the challenge of playing real-life characters

Director and actor Nagraj Manjule on the regional vs mainstream cinema debate, why content platforms are the next big thing and his occasional trysts in front of the camera

The best of Indian crafts come together on one platform.

Photojournalist Praveen Jain’s exhibition documents several significant and candid moments in Indian politics.