Culture : Articles

Suryakant Waghmore
Why Anti-Caste Movies Are Making Money
11 Sep 2019
Caste was never this popular on celluloid. New notions of caste are changing this.
Unnamati Syama Sundar
'It’s Often Assumed That One Is a Dalit If Their Research Is on Ambedkar'
04 Sep 2019
We have a poor sense of history. We lag behind in historical research.
PTI
Salman Rushdie's 'Quichotte' on Booker Prize 2019 Shortlist
03 Sep 2019
This year, the Mumbai-born author is shortlisted alongside another former winner, Margaret Atwood, besides Lucy Ellmann, Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma, and Elif Shafak. The award will be…
Subhash Gatade
Books About Wars in Your Country
30 Aug 2019
A brief history of books, resistance, the police and politicians.
Bibin Sam Thomas
What a Hindi Movie and Ordinary Kashmiris Share
27 Aug 2019
The innocence of the film Hamid’s narrator and the suffering underlying Kashmiri resistance convey suppressed agony.
Tony Joseph
Seeing History the Right Side Up: Excerpts from Early Indians
26 Aug 2019
Tony Joseph's Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From goes 65,000 years into the past–when a band of modern humans, or Homo sapiens, first made their way from Africa into the…
E Newsroom
Lack of Funds a Hurdle in Bengal Ballet Boy’s American Dream
22 Aug 2019
A grocer’s son from Siliguri has been selected by some of the best ballet academies in the US, but lack of funds may ruin the dream of this self-taught ‘Ballet Boy of Bengal’.
PTI
Khayyam – ‘A Storehouse of Feelings, Emotions and Music’
20 Aug 2019
Mohammed Zahur Hashmi, popularly known as Khayyam, was born in 1927 in Rahon in the undivided Punjab state. He passed away at the age of 92 0n Monday, leaving behind a bouquet of mesmerizing songs.
Karwan E Mohabbat
"Woh Subah Kabhi Toh Aayegi" | Independence Day Special
17 Aug 2019
What does it mean to be free in today's India? What does it mean to be Indian?
Bharathy Singaravel
Kashmir, A Garrison
12 Aug 2019
Films like Hamid offer writers and the cultural resistance, a way into the conversation alongside civil liberties activists, human rights groups and a small number of political figures.