Here's unfurling the calendar for the best of culture, fashion, food, art, books and the grand spectacle called India
Actor-producers Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal on Girls Will Be Girls, which won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, parenting and breaking their fixed deposits to fund their debut project. The conversation was moderated by Suvir Saran and Jyoti Sharma Bawa.
A Little Gull spotted in the Chandu wetlands near the Sultanpur National Park, far off its course, drew birders from far and wide
Resolutions demand that we start anew each January, erasing the months before. But life isn’t meant to be wiped clean; it’s meant to be layered, like that burnt chutney, with flavours born from our mistakes and triumphs alike
When I walked through the campus designed by the same man who landscaped Central Park, New York, I could enjoy a host of young women acting winter: they stamped their shoes, they flicked snowflakes off their hair, they wrapped and unwrapped themselves with the care that we would give birthday gifts back home.
I must have been in the middle or towards the end of the ‘queue’ when I was suddenly confronted by all the pioneering leaders rushing pell-mell back urgently whispering ‘Pagal haathi! Pagal haathi!’
Is Barmer about serendipity? Or a way of life in the Thar, where sight, sound, smell, and everything else is about the art of finding water?
Sharmila Tagore on her new film Outhouse, being ahead of her time and the missing camaraderie in Bollywood. The conversation was moderated by Aakash Joshi
"Suddenly, I felt like the only person alive in an alien universe. I also felt ill and dizzy, as if the snow was simply waiting for me to die and be buried under," says author Nandini Krishnan
Conifers dusted with powdery sugar and trees plump with frosting. Snow in Sikkim may have thrown our best-laid schemes awry but we would not have had it any other way
At SCREEN Live, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol come together to discuss their blockbuster year, family legacy, camps in Bollywood and the secret of their grit.
While not shredding the dignity of inquisitive lions and leopards, ratels hunt for smaller animals with the same degree of ferocity and are vital in keeping animals like rodents and lizards under control
Remembering the legendary Raj Kapoor on his centenary, what made him an awaara and why he felt the hardest thing to do in cinema was to make a good popular film.
Raagas like Bhairavi and Bageshri became guideposts in dark times, their melodies reminding us that light and hope are always within reach
Gulammohammed Sheikh on curating an exhibition of Bhupen Khakhar at Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa, their friendship and Khakhar’s depiction of homosexual relationships
If the guy behind you in the Humvee warbles like a skylark or bulbul, you’ll gladly give way to him or her with a smile and a wave, even if he is purple with rage
American director Chuck Russell was at IFFI, Goa, where he spoke about returning to the horror genre and possibility of setting part of his next project in India
Jimmy Shergill, Tamannaah Bhatia and Avinash Tiwary talk about the ‘hustle’ of entering the industry as outsiders, meeting superstars like Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan and working with Neeraj Pandey on their new film Sikandar Ka Muqaddar. The conversation was moderated by Jyoti Sharma Bawa, Entertainment and Lifestyle Editor, Indian Express Digital.
The only mammals that can maintain sustained flight, a fruit bat can give you the heebie-jeebies while flapping close past you
When Lakshmipriya Devi strongly reconnected with her Manipuri roots while caring for her father and aunt at her Mumbai home, she badly wanted to write the story of Boong.
The 27-year-old Karan Aujla on ruling the charts, staying true to his roots, his Bollywood debut with the hit 'Tauba Tauba,' and why his upcoming India tour feels like homecoming.
Girls will be Girls, the debut directorial by Shuchi Talati that recently screened at the Dharamshala International Film Festival, features Preeti Panigrahi (23) in her first feature film performance.
It has fallen upon me to declare the truth to my neighbours, to help them become better humans
Husain’s paintings have spoken to audiences, both regional and global. Now, an exhibition in the Capital testifies to why he is one of India’s most-admired artists
Shoojit Sircar unpacks the making of I Want To Talk, how Abhishek Bachchan became his assistant director on the set and how Johny Lever was cast as his namesake


