'LET ME GO HOME!'

Do we care about India's Nowhere People, asks Sunil Sethi. IMAGE: Migrants from Rajasthan travel to the Kozhikode railway station before boarding a train to their villages, May 13, 2020.......

Sahir Ludhianvi's priceless notes, poems found in scrap shop!

Mumbai-based Film Heritage Foundation, a not-for-profit NGO, found these items recently amid a dump of newspapers and magazines at the scrap shop in Juhu and now plans to preserve and exhibit "the......

How Hindi conquers other Indian languages

It looks like Hindi, which faces political opposition at the front door, is entering Tamil Nadu through the kitchen, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf. On a visit to Pakistan in 1998, a distant relative......

Why Communism will never die

On November 7, which marks 100 years of the Russian Revolution, Syed Firdaus Ashraf recalls a conversation he once had on Communism. November 7, 2017 marks the centenary of the Bolshevik......

'You're not becoming a critic to tear cinema down'

'You become a critic because the job entails watching a 100 films a year, out of which there will be five or six good films.''It's really a glutton for punishment, but you're also optimistic and......

Have You Heard These Rakhi Songs?

In the days of Biswajeet, Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan, almost every film had a sister. And every screen sister sang a soul-stirring song about her brother, whether it was Nanda singing......

'Only a genius like Sahir Ludhianvi would describe this ebb and flow of time and fame so beautifully'

'No matter how big the name, no one lives forever; like medicines, we come with an expiry date.''But, in the short time that we have, we try to make something that will stay on long after we are......

5 Lata Mangeshkar-R D Burman Gems

Rahul Dev Burman's collaboration with Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar was unique, but he saved his best for Lata Mangeshkar. You only have to hear Raina Beeti Jaye (Amar Prem), Bahon Mein Chale Aao......

Hindi commentators add spice to NBA in India

'I never imagined that there would come a day when the NBA game would be seen and heard by Indian fans in their own language.' IMAGE: The NBA's Hindi commentator Akshay Manwani analyses games on......