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 …

Jungle Law:   It took a while to get Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger, to the screen; the book was not great, but caught India at a …

Men win glory in the march of history, and the contribution of women is often forgotten. Whether it is India’s struggle for Independence or the World Wars, women not just …

Heart And Soul: Chris Whitaker’s We Begin At The End has been listed among the best thrillers of 2020, but to label it a thriller is to do it an …

The Great Indian Family: If there’s one thing Seema Pahwa’s debut directorial, Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi, does really well, it is evoking a strong sense of nostalgia among those whose …