#SavitriShaming and how drinking harms women

Rather than shaming Indian women (and men) who don’t want to drink, through peer pressure and barbs, let’s consider respecting their, perhaps more sensible, choices instead, says......

COLUMN: Utterly butterly Indian ads

A recently published book, Ad Katha, is not just a trip through the golden age of Indian advertising, but also an enquiry into how many of the cultural symbols that we now see as "Indian" came......

'Loathsome on screen, but a sweetheart in life'

'Shashikala was never short of her work.''But somewhere as she grew older she got tired of playing variations of the villain.''She became spiritual.'Subhash K Jha remembers Shashikala who passed......