Anushree Majumdar

Scottish-Bengali writer Abir Mukherjee, who wrote 'A Rising Man' and 'Smoke and Ashes' on setting his police procedurals in early 20th century Calcutta and why humour leaves the deepest cuts.

Life lessons from Hannah Gadsby’s searing new show, Nanette. A joke is a story you tell yourself first, before anyone else. You do it so that you may change the outcome of an event that you had no control over. It’s not that different from a lie after all.

How Bappi Lahiri came to be India’s disco king and why, nearly five decades since he burst on to the scene in Bollywood, he is still not done making music.

Actor Sumeet Vyas on playing the likeable guy in Veere Di Wedding, working with women and the price of fame

A round-up of Indian detective fiction novels this season.

Would you like to watch an iconic film with a score played live at the screening? If yes, then a Mumbai-based entrepreneur has a treat for you.

ChalChitra Abhiyaan, documentary filmmaker Nakul Singh Sawhney’s film and media collective, hopes to give a voice to the marginalised in western UP

If feminism is an F word that the leading ladies of Veere Di Wedding are shying from, it’s because they have another — fun

Bhavesh Joshi Superhero director Vikramaditya Motwane talks about his vigilante's sense of justice, how politics shaped and reshaped his film and how with Bhavesh he gets a chance to look at justice, personal agency and the idea of being a citizen.

Here's how Vivian Fernandes aka DIVINE inspired Zoya Akhtar to make a film on Mumbai’s hip-hop scene.

Tony Wolf, the Italian co-creator of Pingu, the world’s most adorable and favourite penguin, has died. Thank you is not enough.

Bandopadhyay is best known for Pather Panchali, but the story of Shankar Roy Chaudhury, the 20-year-old protagonist who travels to Uganda in search of the unknown has long captivated readers.

In every film, screenwriter Juhi Chaturvedi explores the Indian middle-class family, their troubles and triumphs – and offers a balm for what ails them.

By inviting masters of Hindustani classical music to perform at an annual baithak, a Delhi family seeks to keep a tradition alive.

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, six Indians and an Australian have transported Mallakhamb, an ancient Indian sport, from the beaches of Mumbai to the coast Down Under

Writer Preti Taneja on adapting King Lear into a contemporary Indian setting, the intertextuality of her novel and why she chose not to translate the Hindi words in it into English.

Ishaan Khatter on his acting debut in Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s first Hindi film

Could 2018 be Neeraj Kabi’s year? The 50-year-old actor is more about meta than method, with roles opposed to leads, but will somebody please give him a song to lip sync to?

If one deletes social media, what kind of interaction remains for a generation that lives so much of their lives online?