From breaking the geometry and grid of tradition to designing clothes that seamlessly adapt to different occasions, designers are reinforcing ideas of versatility and fluidity this season
People speak of love as a high. But love is also a low, a longing, a lament. It is a mirror, a maze, a melody. It is the most human thing we do. And I am so grateful to be human.
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta and actor Randeep Hooda on the power of good cinema, facing the mob, censorship, and why it is as important to tell Savarkar’s story as it is to tell Gandhi’s. The conversation was moderated by Vandita Mishra
Bengali film Puratawn brings two stalwarts — Sharmila Tagore and Rituparna Sengupta — together in a story that turns the lens on the elderly
From the blue-whistling thrush to the mellifluous red-whiskered bulbul and the ear-piercing calls of the peacock, nature has its way of bringing in the day
Conferred the Jnanpith Award, Gulzar, one of India’s finest poets and lyricists, talks about his journey, working with Bimal Roy and how he keeps up with the times.
A child’s soul belongs to tomorrow and if we are careless with our words, then what foundation are we laying?
What if binoculars come out as you go into the bathroom to brush your teeth and take a shower or a pride of lionesses peeks at you as you start your day?
Be it the African mole rats, killer whales or the spotted hyenas, females rule; it's all about survival
Everywhere you go in Georgia, you will find khinkali, a plus-sized dumpling, that will remind you both of momo and modak
Kumud Mishra and Sumeet Vyas talk about straddling two mediums – stage and screen – working on their craft and how theatre gives them an opportunity to indulge in text and micro-analyse it.
Women from small town India are making the journey of a thousand miles with that first step — from travelling solo to going on adventure treks — and in the process finding their me-time
Love—that most tender of human experiences—has been placed under siege. This is not the India I know. This is not the India I want to recognise.
The volume is an ambitious effort to bring together work by India's best writers across centuries, such as Rabindranath Tagore, Fakir Mohan Senapati, Vimla Devi and Ismat Chughtai
The book’s language reflects the inclusivity of its time: 'The personal and impersonal are, in Sunetra’s writing, conjoined like Siamese twins; to leave one out would be to lose the other'
Ankush Bahuguna on challenging stereotypes, how make-up helped embrace his authentic self and brought him closer to his mother
These days people expect to have tigers on the tap on wildlife safaris. But what does that mean for animals and their habitats
Reconnected with old friends over food but oh, did I miss Instagram! Life is richest when lived in both realms — the tangible and the digital
PV Sindhu and Datta Sai Venkata on what brought them together, bonding over sports and the process of building the star shuttler's badminton academy.
Noted composer Roshan, posthumously awarded the IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award, penned delightful, balming melodies that have stood the test of time.
Indian-Australian filmmaker Mitu Bhowmick Lange on the making of the film My Melbourne and the growing audience of Indian movies in Australia.
"The explorer in him never stopped at any milestone. He was always experimenting with his art, constantly exploring new mediums and forms. I remember one day he came to me with a terracotta sculpture of desi Ayurvedic bottles that his father used to keep at his bedside in his old age. I found it highly original and fascinating, and he immediately gifted it to me."
Flies are big-time pollinators which have never got the credit they deserve for this service
Photo-artist Dayanita Singh on the intersection of physical worlds in her architecture photography, her interactions with Mona Ahmed, how her mother Nony Singh and tabla maestro Zakir Hussain influenced her work and the future of photography.
Inside us, however—inside, in the deepest sanctum of our being, in the home of our soul—there is something unshakeable. Something constant.





