One of the very few in contemporary Indian cinema, to carve out his distinct niche, Vishal Bharadwaj opens up on influences, critics, piracy and more. How is ‘Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola’ shaping up? You know, the title is not yet finalised…
Anjolie Ela Menon, in conversation with Sayantan Neogi, talks about the legendary artist, Amrita Sher-Gil. Do you think that the development of the Dutch-Bengal school was more of a borrowed grammar, whereas, with Amrita Sher-Gil it was a lived
If you were to chart out 3 major watershed events in the history of the Left in post independent India, what would they be? In the post-Independence history of the Communist movement, the three important events I would mark are
Movies, singing, theatre- which is the most stimulating? Definitely theatre. The spontaneity and immediacy of it makes me deliver my best. Your take on Broadway style theatre launching in India : High time it did. It helps trouncing the
One of the most ‘Debonair’ editors of our times, Vinod Mehta, speaks to Pritha Kejriwal on his Memoirs, memories, media and much more… Let me just start by saying that your memoir was a fascinating read… made me so
Stargazers, perhaps know it, more than others, the true scales of our lives. The real distances, the real sizes…The true meanings of vast and narrow, big and small…Their points of references and perspectives are perhaps more accurate and larger than
Avant-garde, progressive and engaging are a few words that construct the celluloid hustler the world knows better as ‘Q’. Having raved audiences in New York , Berlin and Utah with his ‘rap musical’ Indie titled as ‘Gandu’ ,‘Q’ strips down
An interview with Mohammed Hanif. In an interview, you had described ‘A case of exploding Mangoes’ as a love story, a dictator novel, with some jokes and a tasteful sex scene. If you were to ‘sell’ ‘Our Lady of
Andre Schiffrin, a veteran of publishing in America and the founder of the first Non-Profit Publishing house ‘The New Press’ spoke to Soham Bose about the future of the print, the internet and the quiet unfolding of a neo-colonial umbrella
Film maker, Sudhir Mishra in conversation with Sayan Bhattacharya. Almost the entire film fraternity from Bombay has come out in support of Anna Hazare. Yet when we see films (‘My Friend Pinto’) being promoted on the Ramlila ground, one