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What Brahmastra Part One: Shiva does for the cause of the Bollywood superhero movie

Maja Ma movie review: Madhuri Dixit, Gajraj Rao shine in shoddy family drama with misguided queer messaging

Blonde movie review: Assassination of Marilyn Monroe's memory

Paving way for hope: In Darjeeling, a bulldozer connects remote villages to civilisation, saves lives

Jogi movie review: Diljit Dosanjh shines in effective Netflix drama that slowly loses its own efficiency

Everything Everywhere All At Once movie review: Peerless ode to love, life and everything in between

Ghoramara's final gasp: How the Sundarbans island awaits annihilation amid State's apathy, locals' hopelessness

Brahmastra Part One – Shiva movie review: Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor fantasy epic is confused, chaotic, juvenile

The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives Season 2 review: Reality TV with a wink

'The Bear' and the elasticity of grief — to keep forgetting until it becomes easier to remember

Dead Pets Unleashed and what it means to make a feminist game: A closer look

Cuttputlli movie review: Akshay Kumar thriller makes mockery of women safety

Natchathiram Nagargiradhu movie review: Pa Ranjith's uneven vignettes of politics of love

The Rings of Power showrunner JD Payne opens up on making The Lord of the Rings accessible to Tolkien beginners

Enchanter of letters: Why Salman Rushdie's ability to conjure magic with words makes him a favourite

'Boys Over Flowers' to 'Extraordinary Attorney Woo': Tracing evolution of female friendships in K-dramas

Watching Meena Kumari in Pakeezah, I learned how to to strive for beauty

Delhi Crime Season 2 review: Informed, politically charged show with Shefali Shah in top form

Liger movie review: Vijay Deverakonda's fun ride is acutely aware of its strengths

Decoding the art at the heart of Only Murders in the Building Season 2

The Shah Rukh Khan cameo and what it represents: Love, ambition, and irreverence for both

Saints Row Review: Trying hard to make gangster chic relevant again

Queer As Folk's rewriting and rethinking of queer subjectivity is refreshing for a TV series

The heart and hubris of homecoming: When escaping masquerades as returning

From brewing potions to potting a mandrake: Philly exhibition calls out to Potterheads for a touch of magic

Darlings and Masaba Masaba: Mother-daughters are coming of age

Better Call Saul Season 6 review: Updates Breaking Bad's adrenaline rush with its formative brilliance

Never Have I Ever season 3 review: Devi grows from being selfish, messy to mature, confident

Indian Matchmaking season 2 review: Empty fan service

Laal Singh Chaddha movie review: Aamir Khan's Forrest Gump adaptation has no spine of its own

Raksha Bandhan movie review: Akshay Kumar film treats women as cattle

In Darlings, Vishal Bhardwaj and Gulzar create sonic seesaw that never lulls

Forrest Gump opening scene encapsulates character's innocence and adventures

Vikrant Rona director Anup Bhandari breaks down Kichcha Sudeep starrer, and possibilities of a franchise

Ranveer Singh's 'Paper' photoshoot is missed opportunity to examine ideas of the Indian body, masculinity

The Sandman review: Dark, fascinating story of immense magnitude

Why Alia Bhatt in Gully Boy seems like spiritual successor to her character in Darlings

Jaws and the fable of familyhood: Shifting the lens on Steven Spielberg's classic

Sita Ramam movie review: Good love story held together by great performances and technical team

Wedding Season movie review: Ethnic identity at constant odds with tired tropes

'Sex And The City' opening credits placed a tutu in Times Square, and television changed forever

Thirteen Lives movie review: Ron Howard's Thai cave rescue prioritises integrity over spectacle

Bullet Train review: Brad Pitt's goofy charm powers this uneven action flick

Why is Bollywood still obsessed with toilet humour?

RENAISSANCE review: Beyoncé's new album isn't really the rebirth we were hoping for

Watch: Aditi Mittal and Christina McGillivray discuss season 2 of Women in Labour podcast

Beyond Ek Villain Returns: Why Bollywood can't get the serial killer sub-genre right

Jaadugar to Jhund, how football emerged as go-to sport of the marginalised on screen

Stray | Game Review

Togetherness, memory and grief

An Artist in Paris

Masaba Masaba Season 2 review: Small strides over big leaps

Dispatches from the CWG 2022 Opening Ceremony

Interview | 'Nomads' author Anthony Sattin

How Maratha incursions into Bengal had brutal domino effect on Indian history

Ek Villain Returns movie review: Makes you question your own existence

Good Luck Jerry movie review: Janhvi Kapoor crime comedy is delightful even when messy

Rahul Khanna finds social media ridiculous but Instagram fun

In conversation with Ms. Marvel music director Laura Karpman: 'I'm queer so I do recognise importance of representation

Vikrant Rona movie review: Glorious world-building, Kichcha Sudeepa's swag brought down by convoluted plot

Koffee with Karan Season 7: What changing aesthetics over the years say about talk show's audiences

Sanjay Dutt as Khalnayak: Why the actor needs to break bad again

Boyhood and the time-lapse of transience

Shamshera | Movie Review

The Gray Man | Movie Review

The Red Chess Republic

JLo, Ben Affleck make second chances at love great again

The coming-of-age superhero story has also come of age

Remembering Bhupinder Singh

'First Light' full colour images captured by James Webb Space Telescope

Casting Coup | On Christian Bale's turn as Gorr in Thor: Love and Thunder

Hardit Singh Malik, the Royal Air Force and World War I

Metallica's Master of Puppets and its portrayal on screen

Jugjugg Jeeyo's Bheem Saini is a type we all know

Why MS Dhoni's footprints will never fade away

God of War Ragnarök gets a release date — finally.

Movie Review | Thor: Love and Thunder

Notes on watching Jujutsu Kaisen 0 on the big screen

Decoding Varun Dhawan's onscreen masculinity

R Madhavan and the case of the 'edgy' protagonist

Shut Up Sona review: Screams with silence, meditates in noise

Victim, Maurice, Heartstopper: Cinema's tryst with 'unspeakable love' over the years

In 'Graduation Day', alternative parenting and its own bitter-sweet triumphs and heartbreaks

Man vs. Bee validates those obsessed with the trivial

Future of Kolkata's trams in question: Functional mode of transport or nostalgic ode to the city?

Inheritance of loss: Navigating through genetic delusion (or hope)

As Karan Johar turns 50, locating queerness embedded in his movies

In 'My Name is Harvey Milk', an Indian recontextualisation of June 1978's iconic Hope Speech

Jugjugg Jeeyo movie review: Look beyond the wedding

International Yoga Day 2022: Asanas that help deal with sedentary lifestyle, fatigue, ageing and more

The Broken News depicts a side of media few know — that it's broke

Atish Dipankar Srijanan: How a prince from Bengal became cult figure in saving Buddhism

In 'Master of Curries', a test of love, friendship and identity between two gay men

Struggling to find space where I can be 'me': Notes from a neurodiverse individual's diary

As Watergate turns 50 today, does Gaslit redeem Martha Mitchell as justly as history does?

The Wonder Years: Little remains of the late '70s Kabul I loved, and remember

The Textual Tension of Modern Love

Humans of Jurassic World: From flesh-and-blood academics to superhero-like action figures

Nissim Ezekiel's 'A Time To Change' at 70: How the prolific poet, with his first book, heralded new era of Indian English poetry

Flexible like a dhanush, unmovable like a pahaad, front leg like loha: Bartonietz's ingredients for javelin success

Ms. Marvel's Shah Rukh Khan debate: Baazigar or Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge? Indian film critics weigh in

Akshay Kumar, Kangana Ranaut's failures show overtly siding with populist politics doesn't always translate to popularity with film audiences

Fragrances of Kannauj: How Tandon siblings aim to put Indian attar on global stage with Boond

In 'Pehli Shaadi', a hijra hopes of manifesting her imaginary worlds into reality

Jayeshbhai Jordaar's OTT reception begs the question: Why can't Yash Raj Films read the room?

Proof review: BTS new album is definitive proof of their supremacy

KK sang about transience of life but his voice asserted permanence of living

Layer'r Shot Deo's isn't the first (or last) sexist ad of its kind

The Ballad of Johnny and Amber

The remarkable journals of Muhammadi Begum

KK was the voice of a generation of collegegoers, on cusp of adulthood

Sidhu Moose Wala (11 June 1993-29 May 2022)

The Daisy Rockwell Interview

The Geetanjali Shree Interview

Anek | Movie Review

The Stranger Things Recap

Varshita Thatavarthi tells it like it is

Top Gun: Maverick | Movie Review

Sound of Azaan | Lucknow

Sound of Azaan

Notes on pain and womanhood

Akbar of Hindustan: Parvati Sharma on retracing an extraordinary emperor's legacy

The Selvaraghavan Interview

The Stylistic, Evocative Brilliance Of Saani Kaayidham

Remembering Pt Shivkumar Sharma

How Sam Raimi brings his own method to the madness of Dr Strange 2

The Art of Performing Life

Kayalpatnam: A Sweet Retelling | Part I

Kayalpatnam: A Sweet Retelling | Part II

Mai and the reclaiming of women's rage

In one of Bengal's 'bonedi baris', a 300-year-old tradition of Basanti Puja

Raja Ganesh: How Bengal's Hindu kingmaker put his son on the throne as a Muslim

The fading cape of parenthood

Millie Bobby Brown, Maisie Williams and the toll of sexualising young actors

How the epic love story of a courtesan and prince has endured over time

Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor marry in Mumbai

Traversing 100 years of Ali Akbar Khan's towering musical legacy

KGF: Chapter 2 | Movie Review

There's little that's fantastic about 'Fantastic Beasts' franchise

Beast | Movie Review

As India's Muslim women are reduced to their hijabs, an art project offers empowering counter-narrative

Twenty-Five Twenty-One | Review

Why today's Bengal doesn't vote on religious lines: Looking to 1500-year-old Pala dynasty for answers

For Ekaya's Palak Shah, Indian textiles are the ultimate in luxury

Sharmaji Namkeen and the quiet triumphs of middle-class fathers

Alia Bhatt in Gangubai Kathiawadi exemplifies the vague yet vital nature of screen presence

Attack | Movie Review

Mansiya VP row: Religion, caste must not dictate what constitutes Indian art

What womanhood means, in 2022

Meena Kumari beyond Pakeezah

Pakeezah beyond Meena Kumari

Hyun Bin, Son Ye-Jin announce wedding

House of the Dragon: HBO's Game of Thrones prequel to release on August 21

Moon Knight | Review

Reading SS Rajamouli's RRR as a star alliance with political implications

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, yes. But the Oscars' real injury lies elsewhere

How the hair trade became common strand of self-reliance for these East Medinipur women

A new exhibition celebrates the work of two of India's earliest women photographers

RRR | Movie Review

Our Poems are our Battle Songs | Sabika Abbas Naqvi

Viewing Instagram Dance Reels as a space for community and social performance

Bhang: An Edible History

'Servant of the People' made Volodymyr Zelenskyy a star. Now he's living in its real-life sequel

Puneeth Rajkumar's James | Movie Review

Bad Buddy: How one little Thai show revolutionised the Boys' Love genre

50 years of The Godfather

Could literary newsletters, and their influential creators, impact Indians' reading habits?

The Kashmir Files | Movie Review

WWE 2K22 | First Impressions

Elden Ring | Game Review

Incantations Over Water | Get a peek at Sharanya Manivannan's magical graphic novel

Why Lithuanian-Sanskrit similarities continue to intrigue linguists, two centuries on

UP 2022: Graphic Details | A comic by Vishwajyoti Ghosh

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 14

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 13

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 12

International Women's Day 2022 Special Edition

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 11

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 10

Abdulrazak Gurnah on finding the voices, stories that make up his acclaimed novels

In a sporting world devoid of characters, Shane Warne was a flashback to a bygone era

The Batman | Movie Review

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 9

'Is it hitting you at all?' | Words exchanged and heard

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 8

Ukrainian filmmaker Dar Gai: 'We know what we're fighting for'

A Tale of Two Russias

Gangubai Kathiawadi | Movie Review

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 7

Valimai | Movie Review

Communities around Jabalpur's lakes and Goa's Mandovi river pay steep price for 'progress'

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 6

Courting kings and clout: How dubashes shaped history in early colonial India

Link between religious dogma and systemic violence isn’t straight — it’s queer

Amitesh Grover on his 'imageless photographs'

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 5

Sifu | Game Review

Bappi Lahiri's songs underscored the days of our lives in weird and wonderful ways

A brief history of Zinda Tilismath

Uncharted | Movie Review

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 4

Inside Gehraiyaan's dark heart: A reading of Shakun Batra's film as noir

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 3

As Qandeel Baloch's brother is acquitted by Pakistan court, revisiting slain star's biography

Hijab isn't the issue, hate and discrimination faced by Indian Muslim women is

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 2

UP: 2022 | Graphic Details | Chapter 1

Badhaai Do | Movie Review

Gehraiyaan | Movie Review

Mahaan | Movie Review

Bayard Rustin, Mahatma Gandhi, and the making of an American pacifist

Lata Mangeshkar's traces will flicker in India's everyday

Lata Mangeshkar passes away at 92

Tamasha and the language of travelling

Looop Lapeta | Review

Rocket Boys | Review

All Of Us Are Dead | Review

Sherlock Holmes and India: Encountering Empire, exotica in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories

How Indian films are jumping onto the IP bandwagon

The Full Monty

Our Beloved Summer: The gentle subversiveness of Choi Woo-shik, Kim Da-mi's Netflix drama

Blossom's 20th anniversary makes visible Bengaluru's invisible transformations

A new field guide documents Arunachal Pradesh's rich flora

Sony WF-1000XM4 | Gadget Review

Attack on Muslim man travelling with Hindu woman shows intent to normalise hate

Unpaused: Naya Safar | Review

How Pushpa: The Rise turned Allu Arjun into a pan-India star

God of War PC | Game Review

Thich Nhat Hanh's lessons are for life, death, and the journey between them

Annapurna Devi's mystique is unraveled in 'The Untold Story of a Reclusive Genius'

History of Kodiyala's Padmashali weavers forms warp and weft of a sari project

In 2 Bengal villages, submerged fields, homes legacy of Oct 2021 deluge

Who benefits from state honours, and how much, is a function of privilege

Bulli Bai isn't the first hate crime targeting Muslim women. It won't be the last

2022 is the year of Tahir Raj Bhasin

How 2017 actress assault case exposed Mollywood's misogyny

Deepthi Sasidharan | 'Museums remind us of where we come from'

A friend in need: Notes on DCH, ZNMD and Chhichhore

For queer people, friendships are fundamentally fraught

How Netflix's Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein subverts Baazigar

Revisiting Pandit Birju Maharaj's influence on dance in Indian films

'Kaanta Laga' and the makings of a millennial moral panic

Koorka conundrum: Connecting a divisive Kerala tuber to Bharata's dictums

The Weeknd's Dawn FM | Album Review

Ranjish Hi Sahi | Review

A complete timeline of Australia's stand-off with Novak Djokovic

Tintin's tryst with India

The one where Allahabad's Akbar woke up in Prayagraj

The Lost Daughter and the Unbearable Weariness of Motherhood

Anti-Christian violence reported across India in December

The Focal Point | Columns by Rahul Desai

2022's 22 most anticipated fiction titles

Atrangi Re is proof that Aanand L Rai's female characters refuse to grow up

Spider-Man: No Way Home and WandaVision represent the future of MCU

Swimming with the big fish, sustainably

Year of Health & Care Workers | Aijaz Ahmad's on-duty despatches

Your guide to every major NFT drop in 2021

The perfect New Year's Eve playlist

Caste through the camera

Vinita Chaitanya's designs are modern, luxurious and wholly individualistic

With 'Vinati: Songs from the Gita Govinda', Surupa Sen stamps her name as one of Odissi's greats

Varunika Saraf's art speaks to a present besieged by violence

The charming superhero universe of Minnal Murali

Christmas songs of India

Your guide to the James Webb Space Telescope

For families of Oting victims, no answers, only grief

The Matrix: Resurrections | Movie Review

Kabir Khan's 83 | Movie Review

The Witcher Season 2 on Netflix | Review

Netflix's Decoupled | Review

Pushpa: The Rise | Movie Review

Peng Shuai's isn't a cautionary tale, it's a testament to the grit of survivors everywhere

Spider-Man: No Way Home | Movie Review

Bangladesh's Liberation War, 50 years on

How Radio Ceylon ruled the airwaves in the 1950s

Shiva Keshavan lines up for seventh shot at Winter Olympics, this time as coach

Succession S3 | Review

Divya Cowasji's 'Remember Me' project traces all that we leave behind

The radical empathy of Dr Sarada Menon

A return to Rampur: Tira Khan's photos explore home as a place and an emotion

There's something about Adam Driver

As Halo Infinite launches, a look at franchise's journey so far

History beckons, and threatens, Lewis Hamilton

Mehfil-e-Nazm: Listen to Fahmida Riaz's 'Aqlima' & 'Tum Bilkul Hum Jaise Nikle'

The Weight of Water, on climate change's toll in Nepal, is the documentary this crisis needs

Tripura violence leaves aftermath of debris, trauma in once-quiet communities

Idol hands for the goddess' workshops

Why health is more political than we perceive it to be

Five SS22 trends that were an antidote to pandemic dressing

How art met fashion in Spring/Summer 2022 accessories

Bengaluru cops' veto of Munawar Faruqui's show upholds majoritarianism, not law

From Spencer to The Crown to Diana: The enduring enigma of the People's Princess

With Spencer, Pablo Larraín liberates Diana's legacy by refusing to preserve it

Spencer | Movie Review

In Spencer, Pablo Larrain frames Diana like a Renaissance painting model

Does Ajinkya Rahane still deserve his spot in the XI?

Munawar Faruqui: 'I think this is the end'

A Qawwali photo project brings untold stories of practitioners and forms to the fore

Hellbound's brand of hellish realism delivers a punch to the gut

Preppy style returns to pop culture, the runway — and our closets

Mehfil-e-Nazm | Ahmad Faraz's 'Mat Qatl Karo' & 'Ab Ke Hum Bichhde Toh'

Harjeet Singh has become an afterthought for Indian hockey

It's BTS' universe, and we're lucky to be living in it

The Wheel of Time is not the 'next Game of Thrones'. And that's a good thing.

Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh | Book Review

Exclusive: Monty Panesar on English cricket's racism crisis

From racetrack to ravines: How Tigmanshu Dhulia, Sanjay Chouhan wrote Paan Singh Tomar

Saurabh Kirpal as Delhi HC judge is chance for SC to walk the talk on safeguarding LGBT rights

This Haveli Is Haunted: A Ramsay Brothers-themed Halloween poster