by Uma Kaushik | Aug 23, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
Mission Mangal was the right movie, on the right day. What better way to celebrate India’s Independence Day, than by saluting the team of scientists at ISRO, mainly women, who were responsible for India being the first country in the world to reach Martian...
by Sujata Srinivasan | Aug 19, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Culture
A Toast to your Good Health Some sixty people gathered at the Yale University Art Gallery on a summer afternoon to mindfully gaze at a single painting. It was the only one in the vast space. They stared and stared at a James Turrell print – the white, rectangular...
by O. P. Srivastava | Aug 16, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
Biopics are very much the fashion now in the Indian film industry. From Paan Singh Tomar (2012), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) and Sanju (2018) doing fairly well to last year’s Manto (2018) not proving a great commercial hit to the most recent ones to hit the halls in...
by Pavani Kaushik | Aug 15, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Culture, Heritage Arts, People, Profiles
Some things are hardwired into our DNA no matter where we might travel across the globe. Language and vocabulary feature right at the top of the list. The words ‘Karnataka’ and ‘handcrafted puppetry’ jumped out at me from my email inbox one morning. I was intrigued...
by Preeti Hay | Aug 12, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
I remember Sapna Bhavnani from party circles in Mumbai in the mid 2000s. Her salon Mad- O-Wat was quite the rage among my pink-haired, mohawked girlfriends who made heads turn! When I saw her on a common internet group wanting to make a film on Sindhis I was...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Aug 1, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
I wanted to tell Gurinder Chadha that she is to me what Springsteen is to Javed in her film Blinded by the Light (releasing August 16, 2019). Larger than life. Awe-inspiring. Authentic. Raw. That her 1993 film Bhaji on the Beach blew my mind! But when my icon spoke, I...
