A fan tells the AR Rahman story

Noel de Souza  in conversation with Hilary Swank

Dharavi lies between myth and memory. Lhendup G Bhutia discovers one of India’s biggest social transformations

Everyone is a villain in this novel adaptation

Oscar-nominated Dev Patel talks about what it is like being a child of immigrants in a conversation with Noel de Souza

...from the land of Shanti Shanti

“Eye-gouging only happens when the lazier slum-dwellers, who would rather beg than work, request the operation.”

It is rare for a film to inspire books on its theme, its principal characters or its creators. In that sense, the timing of Mathai’s book is a dead giveaway

Making music with AR Rahman is known to have driven many filmmakers up the wall. For, he hates deadlines as much as he craves musical perfection. An extract