'Manto is the only writer to grasp what the project of Pakistan would eventually mean,' says Aakar Patel, who has translated a collection of Saadat Hasan Manto's essays in a just-released book Why......
Perhaps Justice S Muralidhar of the Delhi High Court had Valentine's Day in mind when, earlier this week, he threw out a criminal complaint of obscenity by the police against a young couple who......
Besides the five Indian films that are playing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year -- a rather large collection at an international film festival, says Aseem Chhabra -- there are......
First it was the lifestyle magazines and newspaper supplements. Then it was lifestyle stores. Now it is the turn of lifestyle television channels to woo the metro citizens.Zoom, from Bennett,......
Hands down, the star of the show is Rajkummar Rao, observes Sukanya Verma. Hansal Mehta and Rajkummar Rao have produced some of their most dramatic and bold work (Shahid, Citylights, Aligarh,......
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies. It's that time of the week when you get to test your memory and Bollywood knowledge in my fun and filmi quiz. You know......
'I am most happy about the memes of Thor and me; that was so cool!''I showed my wife one where my face was photoshopped on Thor's body.''She loves muscles -- she's always keeps telling me to get......
Bollywood's homophobia problem bares itself in its various caricatures of the LGBQT community. Where a few film-makers are sensitive in their treatment as noted in the depiction of lesbian love in......
'Dibakar Banerjee isn't simply giving a particular fascistic regime the finger.''Here, he wants to offer us a preview of the invisible forces and human tendencies that drive fascism, blind......