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Making art accessible: festivals, regional outreach, market growth

September 28, 2025 11:52 am

Jodhpur Arts Week (JAW) will showcase projects that promote collaborations between traditional artisans from the region and more recognised mainstream names.

In Is a River Alive? Robert MacFarlane deliberates if water bodies are meant for human use

September 30, 2025 12:50 pm

At the core of the book is Macfarlane’s contention that if a river is alive, laws, politics and, most significantly, our perceptions, must change

'The Hindi Heartland': Ghazala Wahab’s bold exploration of politics, identity and secularism

September 30, 2025 12:50 pm

The book challenges clichés about North India, offering a deeply researched and refreshingly accessible narrative of its political and cultural evolution

Local Loudmouths: And we thought only humans had that skill

September 26, 2025 3:06 pm

From sparrows and mynas to bulbuls, babblers and parakeets – they can set up one hell of a racket as they discuss the day’s business

Sharing our vulnerabilities, insecurities with each other helped us bond: Ishaan Khatter talks about his prep with Homebound co-star Vishal Jethwa

September 27, 2025 1:09 am

Lead actors of India's Oscar entry Homebound, Vishal Jethwa and Ishaan Khatter, on how they bonded before the shoot, worked on internalising their characters and the unlearning they had to do

'I wanted to look at different kinds of loneliness': Kiran Desai on her new novel

September 23, 2025 1:31 pm

Kiran Desai's 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' explores exile and intimacy. In an interview with the Indian Express she describes loneliness as a force that flows.

Why no one sings this song anymore

September 20, 2025 9:04 am

Poet Muztar Khairabadi may not be a household name but in an age of noise and neglect, his works remind us that presence matters more than praise

'Jugnuma' director Raam Reddy on magic realism and working with Manoj Bajpayee

September 21, 2025 7:37 am

The filmmaker, who debuted with 'Thithi', talks about addressing both class and ecological faultlines in his latest film

All in the Family: Why certain species cannibalise on their own

September 18, 2025 4:20 pm

The rationale often is the survival of the fittest, especially when food is short and the parents are hard-pressed to feed a brood

Between two cities, a ghazal

September 15, 2025 11:01 am

When I stand in front of the mirror after these travels—between New York and India, between past and present—I too ask: is there anything new here? Have I changed, or only the backdrop against which I measure myself?

SUNDAY EYE PHOTOS

Ms Marvel to Minnal Murali: Superheroes closer home

July 16, 2022 4:27 pm

Not just Hollywood but many Indian superheroes have been among the audiences' favourites.

Saim Sadiq and Pakistan’s Moment in the Sun & India-Pak camaraderie

July 12, 2022 10:32 am

Saim Sadiq took seven years to make Joyland which is a cis-trans romance in a conservative family drama.

Sreelekha Mitra’s Hour of Glory

November 07, 2021 3:00 pm

By bringing Sreelekha Mitra centre stage in Once Upon a Time in Calcutta, director Aditya Vikram Sengupta has given the actor, in her more-than-two-decade career, a role of a lifetime.

The eye of a genius: The cinematic universe of Satyajit Ray

May 24, 2020 1:35 pm

Satyajit Ray was a quintessential humanist who used the camera with empathy to tell stories. Stories that capture the beauty and severity of life in rural Bengal, decaying feudalism, the struggles and aspirations of the Bengali middle class and its conflict with dogmatic religion. His films told stories in ways that only a humanist of his stature could.

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