The Renting circus

How the fashion enthusiasts in India are coping with designer apparel renting business If you happened to follow the extraordinaire outfits guests at Sonam Kapoor’s wedding wore, you now have a knack for everything fashion designers in the country do in the name of opulent occasion wear. And for most of the attendees, this opulence […]

Chronicling child abuse in cinema

Hindi films have portrayed child sexual abuse in their films time and again, whereas in India this hasn’t figured in as the key theme in world of letters As the recent spate of sex crimes against children hit the headlines and stirred national discourse, it would be relevant to see how Hindi films have engaged […]

Raazi filmmaker on ‘sloganeering’

FILMMAKER MEGHNA GULZAR TALKS ABOUT HER LATEST FILM ‘RAAZI’ AT THE FILM’S PRESS CONFERENCE Filmmaker Meghna Gulzar says through her latest project “Raazi” is about patriotism, she wanted to steer clear of resorting to sloganeering or Pakistan-bashing to make the film saleable. Adaptation of Harinder Sikka’s novel “Calling Sehmat”, “Raazi” is about an Indian woman […]

Maternal instincts

Now that she is a mother, who better than Kareena Kapoor Khan to be Unicef’s celebrity advocate for breast-feeding? Kareena Kapoor was no doubt chosen as a celebrity advocate by Unicef as the actor has a massive follower base within the country, especially among adolescents and youth in the age group of 13-29 years. She […]

The Party Queen

Pupps Roy is popular in the expat party scene in the capital. He has chalked out a radically different life that makes him endearing to his friends Pupps Roy is such a sensation. He’s a popular figure amongst the party crowd of expats in the city. His arrival is anticipated with bated breath at rooftop […]

Beating the blues

Informal jamming sessions of the Delhi Drum Circle keep hearts beating and audiences mesmerised during hot summer afternoons A teenage boy, intending to spend a quiet evening at a café, sat in a corner reading a Murakami novel. Unexpectedly, a trickle of people started arriving—some with musical instruments, some without. For the next few hours, […]

Real royal weddings

if wedding scenes in hindi films set the trends for a million weddings across the country, when the stars wed, their designers make sure they look like princes and princesses of the days of royalty  

Quaint, timeless

In the sleepy Himachal village of Garli, time comes to a standstill. Part of the heritage zone, it is home to architectural marvels where tales are lost in rubble There is magic in the morning air. It isn’t raining anymore but the dark clouds are floating. The snow-capped Dhauladhar range shines in the distance. A […]