There were a lot of questions, but we were given a window of ten minutes each which finally extended to twenty but not beyond! Naseeruddin Shah reminisces about the messiah who taught him breathing exercise, gives tantalizing hints about a
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, author of What if Latin America Ruled the World? makes the case for modeling the world’s political/economic future on the ‘diverse and plural form of leftism’ that is taking hold in Latin America – which acknowledges the asymmetries
In an interview with Majid Maqbool, Aman Sethi talks about his latest book “A Free Man” where the author reiterates the story of his protagonist Mohammed Ashraf who studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, an electrician’s apprentice, yet died as
How did a ‘quaint Bengali man’, one of the many who don’t know what to say to women in a club, end up doing stand-up comedy? I went to do an article for a magazine when London’s Comedy Store
From the specific story Pinki Pramanik, we now move onto the larger discourse around intersexuality and the way it plays out in sports, the queer movement and the medical establishment. Find out why intersexuality is after all a feminist issue.
A student of one of the most prestigious institutions for music, Nischay Parekh’s journey is the stuff dreams are made of. From opening for Norah Jones to releasing his first album, produced by the legendary Miti Adhikari, these dreams have
Relatively new to the music scene, Kolkata based band Write in Stereo played their first proper gig at a recently concluded music festival. Riddhima Khanna caught up with the quartet in an interview where they talk about the burgeoning music
You started off in the 1990s with the BandishProjekt and have today gone on to create a one man army called Nucleya. Could you tell us a bit about the journey? When I was in school, my father bought
Heralded as “A fiery alto saxophonist and prolific composer” by the Star Tribune, Aakash Mittal is a rising star in creative music. A Creative and Performing Arts Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies, he was in Kolkata recently leading a
You’ve performed for a variety of audiences across a lot of different continents, you run your own college for music and you’ve also created a lot of award winning scores for films. So how do you manage all of