Not one to mince words, be it through her widely popular book reviews, which are often more readable than the texts they review or her complex characters and their ambiguous motives, novelist and journalist Zoë Heller talks books, movies, Feminism,
How would you describe your transition from television to cinema? The best journey of my life. It has been enriching and a dream come true because I always dreamt of being in the movies. A lot of hard work, a
Ambai, the Tamil feminist writer on how music, life and cinema weave their way into her writings. Most of your writings deal with the politics of the family and the language of women. Could you elaborate on that? Basically,
In this interview, Patrick French tries to get his arms around a country, in a flux of change. What do you think binds India as a nation? I’d say that India is tied together by two principal forces: one is the modern political
One of the most exciting contemporary Indian filmmakers, Dibakar Banerjee in a no holds barred conversation on art,life,economics, new films and more. Caution: This isn’t about romancing the arts. Why are you so sceptical about who your audience is and
Spacey, psychedelic, rusty, and yet spiritual. Speaking in ragas and taals, Advaita’s music tries to dissolve the difference between the being and the soul. Shubham Nag catches up with India’s latest musical sensation for a freewheeling chat on everything that
The centenary celebrations of Hindi cinema is about to draw to a close. If one were to talk of Indian cinema, the centenary was crossed sometime back with Hiralal Sen’s films that came before Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra. But there
You were among the first of the Indian actors to represent India internationally. How was the reception there? Well, nobody welcomes you there, you have to fight and make a place for yourself. For me having a career on 3
What made you choose the text Mandi… the short story? There was a very well-known short story writer from the pre independent times- Ghulam Abbas. After partition , he moved to Karachi and he had written a short story called Anandi. It is
What is the idea of spine to you? If a spine is the axis, then can a bend, in a dancer’s terminology, imply shifting away from the axis? Spine is actually the soul of dance. Spine is the soul of