Mother’s Day : The original Marathi play, Aai Retire Hotey by Ashok Patole, was written over thirty years ago, and has had several productions since then, in multiple languages. Many aspects …

On May 3, 1913, Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, India’s first feature film, was released in Mumbai, at the Coronation Cinematograph and Variety Hall, Girgaon.  To mark the occasion, here’s revisiting …

The term ‘male gaze’ was coined by Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema—which, to put it simply, meant that visual media are created for a heterosexual male’s point …

Mystery Of The Missing Girls: The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James moves between dual time frames as two intrepid young women set out find out just what is going …

Once Upon A Time In Mumbai:   The textile mills strike in Mumbai, that led to a lockout and mass unemployment in the early eighties, had a long term impact …

The Mark Of  Classic: It’s 41 years since the release of  the original Golmaal (1979), Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s no-frills comedy, that remains a Bollywood classic. Starring Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Dina Pathak, …

The Count Of Hotel Metropol: If a book remains on the bestseller charts for so long, it demands to be read. And after completing Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow …

 In a currently popular web series, Panchayat,  set in a village in Uttar Pradesh, the Pradhan of the gram panchayat is Manju Devi (played by Neena Gupta), but the actual work is …

Women have accomplished much, though there are still some major battles being fought over gender parity at work, and the resistance to sexual harassment is gathering strength. However, there are …

Dead Man Walking: James McBride’s new novel, Deacon King Kong, set in a crumbling Brooklyn housing project in the late sixties, wraps up the history of immigrant and black lives …