Political Cauldron: The idea of youthful radicalism and armed struggles against an unjust establishment has been with Sudhir Mishra since his first film, Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin (1987), and he returned …

Accidental Hero: A key character in Hansal Mehta’s Faraaz accuses another of being a “Twitter debater”. The film, with all its earnestness and attempt to walk a tightrope between ideological differences, unfortunately …

Always Blonde: Pamela Anderson, as a Playboy model and Baywatch star, was once a favorite pin-up girl, “the most famous blonde in the world,” as she is described in a Netflix documentary, Pamela, a love story. …

True Love: There are stories all around if one knows where to look; and those who find them are sometimes suitably rewarded. Like Kartiki Gonsalves, who won an Academy Award …

Women Warriers: Had Srijit Mukherji’s Jaanbaaz Hindustan Ke come a little earlier, it might have evoked more interest; but after a whole spate of cops-and-terrorist shows and films, there is viewer fatigue …

Rain Or Shine: It’s not quite clear why filmmakers suddenly think audiences need to be lectured on condom use—Chhatriwali (on ZEE5) is the third film in recent times to take up …

They Also Made Movies: The current generation of urban moviegoers watching films in the comfort of multiplexes, probably have no idea about the subculture of C-grade films that ran in …

On the current New York Times best sellers list is a book by Tori Dunlap titled Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love. It has …

Justice Delayed…: In India, we are inured to injustice, resigned to the fact that the rich will go unpunished. Still, a group of people fought a legal battle for a …

The Poet Speaks: Those were heady times, writers, poets, artists, joining the stream of progressive thought and expression—makes one wonder, in fact, how the work of these stalwarts could have …