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CAST Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Aditya Roy Kapur | DIRECTOR Abhishek Varman

Kalank Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

It is a multi-star movie, with actors trapped into delivering theatrical lines that make their personas unr

To Ride A Dragon

Books
By Manoj Joshi

Negotiating China’s road to global domination

Yogini (after a 16th century Bijapur miniature painting) from the series The Native Types, 2000-14 © Pushpamala N and Clare Arni

Framing the Fable

Books
By Somak Ghoshal

This study on the evolution of photography in the subcontinent strikes a fine balance between the medium’s

The Eternity of Return

Books
By Payal Dhar

Tishani Doshi’s new novel bristles with an edgy restlessness

Biography as Fiction

Books
By Bhavya Dore

Devi S Laskar’s debut novel navigates present-day US with its police brutality, racial tension and immigran

CAST Abhimanyu Dassani, Radhika Madan, Mahesh Manjrekar | DIRECTOR Vasan Bala

Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

A poor man’s superhero movie

CAST Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra | DIRECTOR Anurag Singh

Kesari Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

If historical nationalism is your thing, this movie is for you

The Big Picture

Books
By Nandini Nair

Coffee-table books that showcase the arts, crafts and cultural histories of India

Dom’s Descriptions

Books
By Urvashi Bahuguna

Literary journalism of a poet

India’s Football Dream | Nikhil Paramjit Sharma and Shantanu Gupta | Sage | Rs 495 | 260 pages

State of Play

Books
By Shail Desai

The early successes and current struggles of football in India

CAST Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Farrukh Jaffer | DIRECTOR Ritesh Batra

Photograph Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

The condition of extreme loneliness in a big city is well known, and director Ritesh Batra examines this ve

CAST Ali Fazal, Shraddha Srinath, Sanjay Mishra | DIRECTOR Tigmanshu Dhulia

Milan Talkies Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

Milan Talkies'makes sense, but it takes a while, and the nuanced character of Maithili is the glue

A Political Thriller

Books
By Ravi Joshi

Two former Election Commissioners detail the grandeur of the largest democratic experiment on earth

Smashing Stereotypes

Books
By Rajni George

The rise of the anti-everywoman

The Tamil Mind

Books
By N Kalyan Raman

A cultural study extending from Periyar to Cho

The First Victim

Books
By Payal Dhar

Understanding systemic violence against women in India

Muddy Mapping Memories by students from the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit at Kaladi

Fight to Remember

Art & Culture
By Rathi Devi Menon

Home and alienation at the fringes of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

CAST Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Lashana Lynch | DIRECTOR Anna Bowden, Ryan Fleck

Captain Marvel Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

‘Captain Marvel’ does not have the epic narrative structure of the other Marvel comic adaptations

CAST Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Amrita Singh | DIRECTOR Sujoy Ghosh

Badla Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

CAST Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Amrita Singh | DIRECTOR Sujoy Ghosh

The Foreigner’s Home

Books
By Toni Morrison

To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, country, gender? Religion, race?

An illustration of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

Timeless Tropes

Books
By Aditya Mani Jha

The malleability and universality of the characters in Little Women remain fresh 150 years after its public

Nayantara Sahgal: Dissenting Note

Books
By Rajni George

Nayantara Sahgal tells Rajni George about a world where cruelty has become casual

Now Showing in Bollywood: Her Power

Books
By Kaveree Bamzai

She is the Change

CAST Kartik Aaryan, Kriti Sannon | DIRECTOR Laxman Utekar

Luka Chuppi Movie Review

Cinema
By Ajit Duara

The movie is too stretched for its own humour

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