Anushree Majumdar

Pyjamas are Forgiving, Khanna’s debut novel, is set in an Ayurvedic spa retreat in Kerala, where patients constantly consume ghee, take laxatives and are feasted on by leeches.

Filmmaker Vaughan Sivell on his film Pistorius

In his Bollywood debut, Stree, filmmaker Amar Kaushik has succeeded in tickling his audience while giving men a dose of their own medicine.

Bollywood actor Shefali Shah, whose latest project Once Again is currently streaming on Netflix, says men in this industry are afforded more choices, regardless of age.

From playing an Indian on some of UK’s popular TV dramas to portraying unusual characters in the Indian indie circuit, actor Tanmay Dhanania charts an atypical career path in the industry.

Does she or does she not play a witch in her first film of 2018? Shraddha Kapoor is excited about Stree, a horror comedy, but won’t give much away.

How does a former cook and domestic help become visible to her middle-class employers? By tearing into their classism the way Deepika Mhatre is doing in Mumbai through stand-up comedy.

Recorded in Nashville, his latest six-track EP, also titled cold/mess, boasts of artwork reminiscent of The Lovers by René Magritte, and is said to be a break-up album.

A renewed interest in Soviet children’s literature across generations has fuelled a must-have book, and a new documentary

With four back-to-back well-received releases on the big screen and Netflix, the summer of 2018 undeniably belongs to Vicky Kaushal.

Romance writer Sonali Dev on seducing America with a touch of Bollywood, and giving women sexual agency in her books.

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