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Dali was fascinated by Indian myths: Curator Christine ArgilletSubscriber Only

February 8, 2025 09:14 IST

Christine Argillet, curator of the Pierre Argillet collection, on exhibiting Salvador Dali’s works in India and her memories of the surrealist artist

Abhishek Majumdar

What democracy means today – watch theatre director Abhishek Majumdar’s Kavan, a political cabaretSubscriber Only

February 7, 2025 17:41 IST

Kavan, an Ambedkarite opera that will premiere at Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai on February 8 and 9, is an exercise in testing democracy in a creative space

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Mother Nature’s mindboggling nano-engineering that helps reptiles and insects stick to surfacesSubscriber Only

February 5, 2025 15:54 IST

The setae are bendy and ultra-flexible, allowing them to follow and stick to the contours of the surface they are on — no matter how infinitesimal they are.

My lisp, once so faint it was barely noticeable, has become more pronounced (Credit: Suvir Saran)

Why I stopped listening to music—and how I’m finding my way backSubscriber Only

February 2, 2025 21:34 IST

Music was my oxygen. For 42 years, it was the pulse of my existence, the rhythm of my being. I lived inside its intricacies, its ragas and talas, its rises and falls. And then, one day, the silence turned against me.

Shahid Kapoor was a special guest for an exclusive conversation with the SCREEN.

Shahid Kapoor: ‘Cinema can surprise you, throw you off. That is why I fell in love with the movies’Subscriber Only

February 1, 2025 17:00 IST

Shahid Kapoor speaks to Jyoti Sharma Bawa on his new film Deva, putting art in cinema, growing up in Delhi and starting his career early.

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India Art Fair 2025: Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor among 120 exhibitors this yearSubscriber Only

February 1, 2025 12:28 IST

The India Art Fair promises to engage collectors and art lovers with myriad exhibitions across the NCR and beyond

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Keep an eye out for these on your morning walk on the beachSubscriber Only

January 30, 2025 18:04 IST

When crabs, snails, plants and birds come out to play

For India, a passport is a chronicler of how we travelled, the evolution of documentary identities, the handling of displacement of millions post-Partition and how we have evolved as a nation.

Republic Day Special: How the passport mapped the journey of India and kept up with its milestonesSubscriber Only

January 27, 2025 05:58 IST

The passport defines the relationship between citizens and their government but it is also a chronicler of how far we have travelled and the evolution of our identities

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Mahakumbh Diary: Why Kinnar Akhada is drawing engineers, doctors, the young and the oldSubscriber Only

January 26, 2025 22:29 IST

The Kinnar Akhada at the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj is where the third sex finds acceptance and a collective spirituality, making it a platform for queer rights and a confluence of ideas

child playing with her father sitting atop his shoulders

Be, Play, LoveSubscriber Only

January 25, 2025 12:31 IST

It is about smiling at the cosmic insignificance of our own existence and yet having fun while we can

creative visualisation of anxiety depicted through a multi-hued portrait of a man

The Helicopter, the Scorpion, and the Grace of SurvivalSubscriber Only

January 25, 2025 12:25 IST

In the end, it is not the fighting that makes us stronger; it is the surrender. It is the willingness to sit with our pain, to embrace our fears, to let the monsters in our minds have their say without letting them consume us

Actor Hrithik Roshan

Hrithik Roshan completes 25 years as an actor, says he still gets nervous while starting new projectsSubscriber Only

January 25, 2025 11:34 IST

In the just-released Netflix docu-series, The Roshans, Hrithik talks of being “extremely shy” and having a “debilitating stutter”. He mentions how having “two thumbs” further put him in the bracket of not being normal. However, once he realised that there was “something” in him, he dreamt of being an actor with the desire to be “seen and validated”

Actor Adil Hussain

Adil Hussain: ‘Most stories on OTT platforms are dark. I hope that changes’Subscriber Only

January 26, 2025 11:23 IST

Actor Adil Hussain speaks to Shubhra Gupta on cinema in a pre-digital world, democratisation of filmmaking and why this is the best time for actors

Our maestro has not managed to attract a sloe-eyed gentle girlfriend but it’s still early days and here’s hoping that he will

The croon of the magpie-robinSubscriber Only

January 24, 2025 16:34 IST

He sings virtually non-stop from say, 5 am to sometimes as late as 9 am, by which time the sun is high and getting hot. And no, sensibly he does not indulge in the sort of leaping and prancing hijinks that many pop singers do

Kartik Aaryan

Kartik Aaryan on breaking records with Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 and his journey from Gwalior to MumbaiSubscriber Only

January 19, 2025 17:04 IST

At SCREEN Live, actor Kartik Aaryan talked about the success of Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, being an outsider, rising entourage costs, and how the attack on Saif Ali Khan has made actors feel vulnerable. The conversation was moderated by Jyoti Sharma Bawa.

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Why theatre director Abhilash Pillai’s new play, Oru Poomala Katha, at Ragbag festival, Thiruvananthapuram, promises to churn imagination and memorySubscriber Only

January 18, 2025 09:54 IST

Abhilash Pillai, one of the country's foremost theatre directors and teachers, has created a play that returns to his first love, circus. Based on the myth of samudra manthan, the play casts different gods in modern contexts and looks as what we mean by asura and why the environment is important

Jayasri Burman (Photo Courtesy: Art Alive Gallery)

Artist Jayasri Burman on using cowries in her recent works and painting Radhika Merchant Ambani’s lehengaSubscriber Only

January 19, 2025 09:35 IST

Artist Jayasri Burman on the mythological character she admires most, and how her painted lehenga for Radhika Merchant Ambani will be her first and last

The ostrich, tiger, birds, animals

How birds, tigers and bear use feet as weapons of defenseSubscriber Only

January 14, 2025 17:48 IST

From climbing trees to ripping prey, from scuttling up tree trunks to using feet as hands, evolutionary engineering is at work in Nature

Vivek Oberoi

Vivek Oberoi says he decided to build his economic independence in 2009, not depend on a lobby to influence his futureSubscriber Only

January 12, 2025 08:29 IST

Vivek Oberoi, who splits his time between acting and business, on not receiving offers after the success of Shootout At Lokhandwala, and his upcoming sex comedy Masti 4.

Chef Garima Arora

‘Indian cuisine is a deep well, we don’t know its boundaries yet,’ says Michelin-star chef Garima Arora, at the launch of BanngSubscriber Only

January 12, 2025 22:17 IST

India’s only two-Michelin-starred woman chef, Garima Arora on launching Banng, why discipline wins over passion and why ten lifetimes aren't enough to understand Indian food

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35 years later, Mallika Sarabhai recalls playing Draupadi in Peter Brook’s The MahabharataSubscriber Only

January 12, 2025 16:09 IST

Three decades after Peter Brook took The Mahabharata to world audiences, a restored version of the film is bringing the magic to the screen

Scars are stories in the language of skin, markers of survival and growth (Credit: Suvir Saran)

Why the art of forgetting is a good way to liveSubscriber Only

January 12, 2025 17:01 IST

Life is an echo chamber, what we send out returns to us amplified. We can cling to the bad or make space for the good

Mahabharatas

Exploring the many MahabharatasSubscriber Only

January 12, 2025 16:00 IST

From Bhasa to KN Panikkar, Ratan Thiyam, Dharamvir Bharti, Mahasweta Devi and Girish Karnad playwrights and theatre directors have, over generations, revisited the Mahabharata

MT Vasudevan Nair's influence on cinema

MT Vasudevan Nair, with his deep understanding of the visual medium, was Kerala’s most beloved storyteller in cinemaSubscriber Only

January 11, 2025 22:15 IST

MT had a hold on the ordinary Malayali’s imagination that has few parallels, having moulded it for over half a century in his role as a popular storyteller.

Black Warrant cast

Vikramaditya Motwane on the making of Black Warrant: ‘We have not done this kind of prison drama in India before’Subscriber Only

January 11, 2025 22:15 IST

Black Warrant, streaming on Netflix, explores the fascinating, complex and dark world of Tihar Jail, one of India’s high-profile prisons that’s often hidden from public view.

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