Ishita Sengupta

Pieces Of A Woman, which has its roots in Mundruczó and Kata Wéber’s personal tragedy of losing a child during pregnancy (Wéber has written the screenplay), is at its core a definitive portrait of a woman afflicted with an unspeakable loss

In a conversation with indianexpress.com, Sen dissects the theme of her poems, the running subjectivity in them and discusses her future works

Pete Docter’s gratifyingly inventive Soul is anchored in a similar site of broken chances and eluding hope, making it one of the most defining films of this year.

Taylor Swift's Evermore imprints her transformation as a person, and in extension artist

In an interview with indianexpress.com, Hindi writers Rakesh Kayasth and Divya Prakash Dubey answered questions on their experiences, the romanticism of Mumbai local trains and the way they translated an experience so visual into an audio series 

The Fabulous Lives Of Bollywood Wives is too guarded to be flamboyant and too cagey to be outrightly callous.

The 22-minute film is a disarming illustration of a 45-year-old introvert learning the ropes to be familiar with his partner in the absence of privacy, evoking the grammar of a high-school romance

In an interview with indianexpress.com, TM Krishna addressed questions regarding his activism, if his empathy runs the risk of being condescending and if awareness enriches art

Son Rise is a rare documentary on female subjugation which puts men at the centre stage.

Ghar Ka Pata, in essence, documents Madhulika’s shifting status from a tourist to an immigrant. But apart from being a heart-rending personal account, it provides human faces to an exodus whose severity keeps coming in the way of recovery.

Nainisha Dedhia’s Gujarati short film Dhummas (Haze) details a tale of systematic familial abuse through the lens of two women

If Durga Puja is about homecoming then the celebrations have to wait.. If the festival is about the hope for resurrected morality, then for now the festive spirit has run dry. For now humanity is endangered.

As #BoycottTanishq trended all through Monday, attacks on the brand sustained on two grounds-- condemnation and rectification

Most documentarians use nonfiction to depict life, Kirsten Johnson uses fiction to trick death in Dick Johnson Is Dead.

In Cuties, Maïmouna Doucouré goes all out objectifying young girls because for once an adolescent story inhabits their gaze. For once their confusion is not viewed as disobedience and rebellion as transgression.

There runs a long history of protest poems in India. Renowned linguist Dr Ganesh Devy traces the tradition to the times of saint poets like Kabir and Mira--unspooling history from its etymology

In an interview with indianexpress.com. Shahani spoke about his new book, Queeristan, the challenges to write it without alienating readers and the privilege that aids in coming out

In an interview with indianexpress.com, Shashi Tharoor spoke about Tharoorosaurus, pondered over ways love for words can be nurtured, and if there has been any instance where he had a literary faux pas.

Asim Abbasi’s Churails does not view patriarchy as a problem but as a reality, one that we have to live with. Women do not become churails but are made one, even if they do not call themselves that. The way forward, as Abbasi shows, is not retribution but resistance

It was a friend who persisted with me to listen to Yaaram (Ek Thi Daayan, 2013), a love ballad so painful that it stings even when sung with a smile

In an interview with indianexpress.com, Dirk Maggs talks about the importance of the audio medium for a storyteller, Douglas Adams and the author whose work he dreams of adapting: Shakespeare

Ravinder Singh is dispelling the idea of an author by owning who he is with rare candour and sincerity.

So much of the collective bafflement that succeeded Sushant Singh Rajput’s death stems from not knowing what happened, in being caught off guard, and in missing out on the ending of a story whose beginning played out for all to see. Dil Bechara comes closest in providing a closure.

By cherry picking its clients and assorting stories it wants to tell, by ticking boxes of caste, religion and class as imperative for an arranged alliance, Indian Matchmaking panders to the West gaze with complying obedience.