Hoisting the rainbow flag

An interview with Sridhar Rangayan, founder-director of Mumbai’s Kashish International Queer Film Festival, who is giving the LGBTQ community space on the screen Not everyone possesses the courage to stand up for what is right. Sridhar Rangayan is one of those rare souls who was brave enough to break free. National Award winning filmmaker, activist, […]

How TRPs are ‘fixed’

Small sample size, ‘panel tampering’ and conflicting interests are just some of the problems that plague TV viewership measurement in India Hansa Research Private Limited, a Mumbai-based global market research company, on April 8 registered a complaint at Gwalior’s Madhav Ganj police station following a leak of Broadcast Audience Research Council-related information by one of […]

BE VARY OF INSPIRATION

Diet Sabya, the new fashion police is looking out for blatant plagiarism by Indian fashion designers. They are unlike the usual patrolling done on Bollywood celebrities for not dressing up to the mark Is surfing the internet before we take on any creative task, a norm now? For the times, we want a ‘unique’ birthday […]

CHHOLE BHATURE: THE KING OF DELHI NCR STREET FOOD

Every city has its “official” street food. Mumbai has vada pao and bhel. Bangalore, its Bisi Bele Bath and set dosae, Kolkata’s, jhal muri and ghughni, and Chennai’s tiffin. Then there’s Ahmedabad’s khakra and other farsan, Patna’s litti chokha and Jaipur’s onion kachori. What is the official street food of NCR? Kulcha matar? Chhole bhature? […]

MANGO MELODIES

In literature and on screen, mangoes often inspire lyrical thoughts. However, there isn’t a rich enough repertoire to match the fruit’s popularity As mangoes are on their way to hit the summer fruits market, there is obviously more to the fruit than the clichéd Alphonso features. One may also be sceptical about the sense of […]

Popularising the proscenium

About a decade ago, a young mechanical engineer left his job to pursue his dream — to make a mark in the theatre scene in Delhi and to experiment with different genres. Now, Sunil Rawat is one of the founder-members of Saksham Theatre Group, which for the past nine years has been holding a theatre […]

Promoting the proscenium

About a decade ago, a young mechanical engineer left his job to pursue his dream — to make a mark in the theatre scene in Delhi and to experiment with different genres. Now, Sunil Rawat is one of the founder-members of Saksham Theatre Group, which for the past nine years has been holding a theatre […]

Hindi mania

Foreigners are willing to pay a handsome price to learn Hindi, not always out of the love for the language You don’t have to be a nationalist of the RSS kind to realise that the world is taking a growing interest in India and its culture, as a stable market with promising economic prospects. One […]