Colours of Passion
A major part of ‘Rang Rasiya’ focuses on the court case against Raja Ravi Verma… charges…
On Balance
Going beyond the romanticism of Communist ideologues and State ruthlessness, Ramachandra Guha talks of nuclear trade,…
Soul Searching
Joseph Lelyveld is a Pulitzer winning journalist, having reported extensively on South Africa and India. Yet…
Moments and Reflections
Deepti Naval talks of laments, hope, books, films, piracy and more… Between the two golden stars…
Gulabi Talkies (2008)
100 years of Indian cinema… a landmark indeed but what constitutes Indian cinema? Is it a…
Through the smokescreen
At a time when the dominant narrative is of normalcy, Sanjay Kak breaks myths. Do…
Man of Glass
Tabish Khair talks of books, colonialism, majoritarian constructs, the idea of India and more in a…
‘I can be your hero, baby’
Jhinuk’s grandmother, much to her annoyance, fails to fathom what was extraordinary about what she had…
XXY (2007)
In the discourse on freedom of choice, one factor often gets a short shrift – the…
Camera Buff
One of the very few in contemporary Indian cinema, to carve out his distinct niche, Vishal Bharadwaj opens…