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He was more contemporary than any of the artists I know: Atul Dodiya remembers Tyeb Mehta in his centenary yearSubscriber Only

August 30, 2025 11:36 IST

One of India’s foremost modernists, Mehta painted the silence and anguish of the human soul

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Collecting Performance Art: Here’s how you can navigate the ephemerality of the mediumSubscriber Only

September 1, 2025 09:06 IST

Performance art is having its ‘golden moment’ in India and beyond, with an emerging dynamic collector base

Mithoon talks about the success of Saiyaara

‘The composer is the profit… sets the destiny of a film’: Mithoon on being the highest paid composer in Bollywood, his global hit from ‘Saiyaara’ and the stories embedded in his musicSubscriber Only

August 29, 2025 19:06 IST

Music composer Mithoon's 'Dhun' from Saiyaara has entered Spotify's Global Top 100.

Exclusive | Tannishtha Chatterjee on fighting stage 4 cancer, says Shabana Azmi went with her to hospital; Dia Mirza, Urmila Matondkar in support groupSubscriber Only

August 28, 2025 20:14 IST

Tannishtha Chatterjee shares a first-person account of how her girl gang is helping her fight stage 4 oligometastatic cancer.

A street dog hiding in a pile of garbage (Credit: Ranjit Lal)

Making sense of the dilemma over stray dogsSubscriber Only

August 27, 2025 15:13 IST

We have allowed the problem to achieve gargantuan dimensions before going in for solutions that are clearly impossible to achieve

Japanese food has been here a while—so why is India now obsessed with ramen, sushi and matcha?Subscriber Only

August 24, 2025 15:20 IST

Sushi counters, ramen bars, adorable kawaii-themed cafés, and omakase experiences — India is in the middle of a Japanese dining boom. Once reserved for five-star hotels, Japanese cuisine is now increasingly accessible, immersive, and imaginative, attracting a younger and more curious audience than ever before

The collection didn’t just look like Gudda’s work— it felt like what Gudda would be doing now (Credit: Suvir Saran)

The House that Gudda BuiltSubscriber Only

August 24, 2025 02:00 IST

The Kash-Gul show, from Rohit Bal Design, at the Couture Week, was proof that a brand, when built with soul, does not die with the master. It evolves, it flourishes

When Brad Pitt wore a ‘Made in India’ shirt: Meet Shani Himanshu who is acing contemporary fashion by reviving indigo and desi cottonSubscriber Only

August 24, 2025 08:51 IST

The designer, who was trained at Diesel, Italy, is now into R&D and is on the cusp of creating India's own denim brand

Kabir Khan, Richa Chadha, Vandita Mishra

Kabir Khan at Expresso: ‘Saying you’re apolitical is the most political statement. It reeks of privilege’Subscriber Only

August 25, 2025 07:49 IST

At Expresso in Mumbai, director Kabir Khan and actor-producer Richa Chadha reflected on spending a decade in Bollywood, their big breaks, and being vocal about their political views.

The Sarus crane maintains sterling (Photo by Ranjit Lal)

Jungleland wishlist: What animals have, and humans wantSubscriber Only

August 21, 2025 11:04 IST

We’ve been grossly short-changed, but if we put on that sweet, inane smile the three-toed sloth wears, maybe Mother Nature will bestow us with her benediction

The Independence Day celebrations might be over. The responsibility has just begunSubscriber Only

August 17, 2025 01:00 IST

India, the oldest continuing civilisation, now the largest democracy in the world, is not great because she is perfect, but because she keeps working at her promise

A look at some epic challenges actor Chris Hemsworth undertakes on the new season of NatGeo’s LimitlessSubscriber Only

August 17, 2025 08:12 IST

In the latest season the Thor actor climbs a frozen 600-foot wall in the Swiss Alps and embraces Special Forces pain training in South Korea to discover how we can live longer, better lives.

Why the cast of ‘Saare Jahan Se Accha’ has the stage to thank for their roles on the screenSubscriber Only

August 17, 2025 08:18 IST

Actors Pratik Gandhi, Sunny Hinduja and Anup Soni on being part of the Netflix series, why it was an enriching experience and the historical characters they would like to portray

Depinder Chhibber, whose ghevar and raj kachori won hearts on MasterChef Australia, shares her New Delhi to Newcastle storySubscriber Only

August 17, 2025 08:12 IST

Chhibber first competed on MasterChef Australia in 2021 (Season 13), finishing seventh. This year, she was invited back for Season 17’s ‘Back to Win’, joining other past contenders

Ritu Kumar at 80: How she drew Indian fashion out of the colonial yoke by rescuing block prints and lost textilesSubscriber Only

August 17, 2025 08:31 IST

Ritu Kumar’s fashion story began under trees and with burnt wooden blocks. It has grown to become one of the country’s most respected labels. Now 80, she is writing a book on reclaiming lost textile traditions that laid the template for Indian couture

Independence Day Special: Writer and cartoonist Manjula Padmanabhan reimagines Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt Satyagraha through the eyes of a time-touring teenSubscriber Only

August 10, 2025 03:44 IST

The story follows a boy who travels back to the time of India's freedom struggle and discovers how the now ubiquitous salt drove the British out of India

Independence Day Special: Children’s author reimagines the accession of the princely states to India in times of social mediaSubscriber Only

August 10, 2025 03:44 IST

If Maniben, VP Menon and Sardar Patel were on social media

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Independence Day Special: Author and environmentalist Ranjit Lal decodes how freedom has everything to do with loveSubscriber Only

August 10, 2025 03:06 IST

The little birds took off. 'Didn’t that give you a lovely feeling? Like you were taking off with them?'

India has never led by conquering. It has led by convening

This Independence Day, let India be the answer the world needsSubscriber Only

August 10, 2025 00:00 IST

Independence is not an inheritance. It is not static. It is daily. It demands care. And care requires clarity. If we are to rise, it cannot be by repeating slogans but by embodying their spirit

Independence Day Special: Filmmaker and animator Suresh Eriyat on how processions have been the theatre where freedom is performedSubscriber Only

August 9, 2025 12:06 IST

Freedom, when it arrived, wasn’t a firecracker burst. It was a slow, noisy, moving, dancing, grieving, singing thing

Meet Zarna Garg, the Indian-American comedian who turned Indian-aunty jokes into cultural currencySubscriber Only

August 11, 2025 16:25 IST

Zarna is a “culturally universal loudmouthed aunty doling out home-truth bombs” who has amassed a massive fan base, both online (over 1.5 million followers on Instagram) and offline

How Malegaon Ke Sholay’s crew of locals changed the way the iconic Dharmendra-Amitabh-starrer is seenSubscriber Only

August 10, 2025 13:30 IST

The success of Malegaon Ke Sholay catapulted Nasir Shaikh to national fame. His work inspired numerous documentaries, including Supermen of Malegaon, produced by Zoya Akhtar.

Past Melodies: A look-back at the music of Sholay and what continues to make it timelessSubscriber Only

August 10, 2025 07:36 IST

The Sholay soundtrack has also been smartly tailored — a seven-track album that’s the pulse of the film, holding it together, providing it with colour and texture.

Dancing Queen: Why the magic of Helen in ‘Mehbooba, mehbooba’ hasn’t faded with the yearsSubscriber Only

August 10, 2025 07:37 IST

'Mehbooba, mehbooba' is a song of misdirection; here the dance is a screen for other activity that moves the story forward.

Shazia Iqbal on directing Dhadak 2 as a Muslim woman: ‘Box-office collection is secondary to the opportunity to make the film’Subscriber Only

August 9, 2025 18:14 IST

Writer-director Shazia Iqbal, who made her feature debut with Dhadak 2, on why she is okay with the criticism over Siddhant Chaturvedi's tanning; why more filmmakers should embrace social relevance as part of mainstream storytelling; and how producer Karan Johar stood by the film's vision.

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