CATEGORIES

Layers Of Lear

Director Rajat Kapoor and actor Vinay Pathak's ode to Shakespeare is an experience to behold

Loss and Longing

Memories can be painful, but they also make life more meaningful

Suprabhatham Sub Judice

M.S. Subbulakshmi decided the fate of her memorials a long time ago

Fortress of Desire

A performance titled 'A Streetcart Named Desire', featuring Indian and international artists and performers, explored different desires through an unusual act on a full moon night at the Gwalior Fort

Of Hope and Hopelessness

The body appears as light in Payal Kapadia's film

Ruptured Lives

A visit to Bangladesh in 2010 shaped the author's novel, a sensitively sketched tale of migrants' struggles

The Big Book

The Big Book of Odia Literature is a groundbreaking work that provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the rich and varied literary traditions of Odisha

How to Refuse the Generous Thief

The poet uses all the available arsenal in English to write the most anti-colonial poetry

The Freedom Compartment

#traindiaries is a photo journal shot in the ladies coaches of Mumbai locals. It explores how women engage and familiarise themselves with spaces by building relationships with complete strangers

Love, Up in the Clouds

Manikbabur Megh is an unusual love story about a man falling for a cloud. Amborish Roychoudhury discusses the process of Manikbabu's creation with actor Chandan Sen and director Abhinandan Banerjee

Street Cred

Serendipity photos explore elements like proximity, similarity, intuition, direction and closure, among others

The Other's Stories

A new generation of Muslim filmmakers is telling their stories through cinema

The Adivasi Code

The domicile policy, the Sarna Dharma Code, land acquisition laws and the protection of tribal land rights are deeply interconnected with the identity and survival of Jharkhand's indigenous population

Delivery Time

Hemant Soren may have won the election, but implementing his electoral promises will not be easy

Incipient Maharashtra Model

The controversy over electoral votes apart, the Mahayuti won as it recalibrated with ground-level mobilisation, alarmed by the results of the Lok Sabha elections, while the Maha Vikas Aghadi lost due to its ‘business as usual’ attitude

The Silent Wave

How the Sangh Parivar, the silent workers of Hindutva, turned the tide in BJP's favour

All For One, One For All?

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis faces tremendous challenges of managing competing interests and rising ambitions of allied partners

Love in Bombay

In a city continuously grappling for space, lovers have found their own pockets of expression jostling against one another

Unscripted Moments

Street photography is all about finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, one candid moment at a time

Sambhal Files

An engineered silence weighs heavily on the stillness of the empty streets in the centuries-old town of Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, where clashes with police over yet another 'mandir-masjid' dispute led to the deaths of local Muslim men

A State of Difference

What is about the Adivasis of Jharkhand that prevents the saffron lotus from blooming or even taking root, unlike in the Adivasi-majority seats of Chhattisgarh and Odisha where the BJP did exceedingly well in the past few years?

BJP Trumps Thackeray's Sena

The tables have turned on the original harbingers of communal politics in Maharashtra

Verses of Witnessing

The most imaginative chronicles of Mumbai's \"spirit\" come to us from the city's poets

Walking Through the Homes

Chandni Chowk is being usurped by a redevelopment model that will wipe out its unique blend of history, culture and commerce

Cost of Living, Price of Loving

In Mumbai's Kamathipura, the business of sex fails to keep up with the profits of real estate

A Taste of History

A delectable food walk in Old Delhi uncovers layers of history

Dramatis Personae

Comparing an actor's struggles in Delhi and Mumbai maps out the differing cultures of two disparate cities

My Name is Delhi

VISITORS have been coming to meet me from eternity, even when I didn’t have a name. There are so many secrets that hide in my bosom, though some have been uncovered.

Clothing Codes

The language of clothing is the shorthand of a city. In Mumbai, practicality has always been the dress code

Circular/Narrow

Delhi is class. Mumbai is cool. But which one is better? The debate continues