Retrospective / Before Sophia Loren became a global icon, she was a girl shaped by post-war Italy
20 September 2026
At 92, her journey from Sofia Scicolone of Pozzuoli to Oscar-winning screen legend remains a story of survival, reinvention and endurance
20 September 2026
Blast from the past / Controlling the Corleones: An offer you can't refuse
18 September 2026
In 2006, a video game offered something the film never could
18 September 2026
Retrospective / MF Husain: The barefoot modernist who painted a civilisation in motion
17 September 2026
Painter, filmmaker and cultural wanderer, he turned a lifetime of movement and contradiction into an unmistakable artistic idiom
17 September 2026
Retrospective / Oliver Stone at 80: The filmmaker who never stopped arguing with America
16 September 2026
From Platoon and JFK to Wall Street and Nixon, Stone built a career out of challenging America’s wars, myths and certainties
16 September 2026
Reflection / Can fractured families be repaired? Galpo Holeo Satti thinks so
30 August 2026
Tapan Sinha’s 1966 classic finds its answer in kindness, patience and the genius of Rabi Ghosh
30 August 2026
Reflection / The world changed. Nazrul did not become obsolete
28 August 2026
Fifty years after Nazrul’s death, the world is technologically unrecognisable but morally haunted by many of the same old divisions
28 August 2026
Nayak at 60: Satyajit Ray understood constantly being watched before the age of self-curation
13 August 2026
The 1966 classic turns Uttam Kumar’s star image into a quietly devastating study of fame and selfhood
13 August 2026
Pop Culture / Samurai Jack and the future we became
12 August 2026
Twenty-five years after its debut on Cartoon Network, its dystopian vision of technology, alienation and lost memory feels startlingly contemporary
12 August 2026
Goodbye to the middleman of truth
Mani Shankar Mukherjee passes away
20 February 2026
'Ciao ragazzi': Farewell to Mariano Rubinacci
He elevated tailoring from manufacture to meaning
19 February 2026
Faiz Ahmad Faiz: When romanticism weaved into revolution
He made poetry a refuge for beauty and a weapon against tyranny
14 February 2026
A tune of love telling the tale of loss
Penned by the melancholic genius Hasrat Mohani and immortalised by the soulful voice of Ghulam Ali it was a composition that captured the hearts of millions across the subcontinent especially with its picturisation in the 1982 film, Nikaah
14 February 2026
Khushwant Singh: Between laughter and lament
In an age increasingly allergic to nuance, Khushwant Singh’s literary works remain instructive -- reminding that literature is not a decoration of society but its interrogation; that humour can coexist with grief
2 February 2026