Award-winning artists, Sabia Khan and Amit Dutt, on the purpose of art and being inspired by life’s elements

Artist Harinder Singh’s Gabru is inspired by Punjabi youth

Rana Tabassum is among the few female poets in Urdu who routinely performs at mushairas. She shares her experiences

Shreyas Talpade on being stereotyped in comic roles and how Marathi cinema is on the rise.

TIFF features the best of queer-themed cinema

Savita Devi, thumri queen Siddheshwari Devi’s daughter, on living in her mother’s shadow and lack of recognition for her work

Actor Adil Hussain takes over the Nimtho kitchen to knock up dishes from Kashmir to Kerala

Tracing the journey of Om Singh from Delhi’s Salaam Baalak Trust — the second lead in the just-released Manoj Bajpayee-starrer Gali Guleiyan

The latest to gravitate towards a Western is French director Jacques Audiard

Filmmaker Vaughan Sivell on his film Pistorius

Artist Paribartana Mohanty’s imagery examines the trauma of societies and individuals

Gods from mythology and heroes from the margins populate the koothu stage — and Sandhya Kumar’s film on this theatre form from Tamil Nadu

Malini Vachani Akerkar on her debut jewellery collection and how design permeates everything she does.

From Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk to Gaspar Noe’s Climax and Steve McQueen’s Widows, Toronto International Film Festival presented a sensorium of sound and visuals.

Naseeruddin Shah on his love for theatre, stimulating audiences’ minds, and the joy of mentoring young actors.

One half of Stree’s writing team, Raj Nidimoru talks about why they chose to subvert patriarchy through a horror comedy.

Why watching an Indian documentary at an international film festival makes perfect sense.

A musical fuses Kathak and contemporary dance for a presentation on many forms of love

A marriage course is a good idea

Hemlata Jain on reviving the patteda anchu weave and making handloom sustainable

Actor-director Yuki Ellias on her latest play and how curiosity about outer space makes a group of women in rural Haryana find its voice

Manmarziyaan stars Abhishek Bachchan, Vicky Kaushal and Taapsee Pannu on how love is the hero of their film.

Mohan Agashe on the need to build creative connections in every sphere of our lives

Tholu Bommalata, the shadow puppet theatre tradition from Andhra Pradesh, hangs by a thread