Troubles Catch Up: It’s been a while since Myron Bolitar made an appearance in a Harlan Coben book. The sports agent  and occasional crime solver got married in Home (2016), …

The suburban housing society where I grew up was cosmopolitan, populated by young couples with children around the same age, so when we were not at school or playing outside, …

Oscar history has been made this year, when two women, Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell, have been nominated in the Best Director Category; Zhao also being the first non white …

All In The Family: In our movies, the death of a woman’s husband is treated with full bangle-breaking, sindoor-wiping, melodrama, accompanied by ear-splitting doleful background music.  So how is a …

The Evil That Men Do: Most serial killer books have men attacking and brutally murdering women, and more often than not they are sex workers. These women easy targets, the …

Soul Saga: The life of Sufi poet Amir Khusrau lends itself beautifully to a musical dastaangoi performance, especially if writers-directors and lead actors Ajitesh Gupta and Mohit Agarwal are also excellent singers. …

Walk into a toy shop and most will have his and hers toys for kids, starting gender conditioning young. Among the pink-wrapped packages for girls, there will be a kitchen …

For The Love Of Music: As Bandish 20-20,000Hz returns in online format, revisiting a review of the Aadyam-backed production when it first opened in 2017. After Afsaane: Bai Se Bioscope Tak, …

Purva Naresh’s plays are running in theatres in Mumbai, so here’s revisiting an interview with her: An Indian playwright is given a brief by an Australian director to write a …

A Man For All Seasons:   As a suburban theatre in Mumbai reopens post-lockdown with Chanakya, revisiting the successful play: Manoj Joshi has been performing Mihir Bhuta’s play Chanakya over …