The Sisterhood Way: The completion of 300 shows of Sangeet Devbabhali is a good time to revisit a review written in 2018. A man ignores his wife and home because…

Saffron Trending: Rating: Three stars: It is time for producers with deep pockets to bring out unsung heroes from Indian history. It is also obvious that these characters and events…

Splash Of Courage: Rating: Three stars There have been films made before Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak, on the unimaginably horrific crime of acid attacks on women, notably the Oscar-winning documentary, Saving Face (2012) by Sharmeen…

Two recent novels, led to the discovery of a remarkable initiative in the early twentieth century, in Roosevelt-era America–the Works Progress Administration’s Pack Horse Library Project. Best-selling author Jojo Moyes’s…

Life Goes On: Mary Beth Keane’s third novel Ask Again, Yes has been voted by several sites as one of the best books of 2019. A sprawling yet intimate epic…

No Spice, No Sizzle:  Rating: 1-1/2 stars: A Ramesh Sippy film coming out after 25 years—his last film Zamana Deewana released in 1995—and turning out to be such a dud,…

It was in January 1979, a couple of months after the inauguration of Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai, that Katare formed his group, Yatri, and staged the satirical play Ek Tha…

Love & Loss: This book finds itself on every list of Best of 2019, capturing with compassion the upheavals in the lives of the Conroy siblings over five decades. At…

Baby Blues: Rating: Three stars In Raj Mehta’s dramedy, Good Newwz, the why not adopt question is met with the conservative  “apna khoon” answer. So two women desperate to have children,…

It’s the end of the year and time to check on the progress made by women in the Hindi film industry—have they inched forward at all? Yes, if the graph…