Three years ago, hit director, Karan Johar said he hadn't yet made a film he was proud of. Here,...
Tracking director Raju Hirani’s incredible life story, Shoma Chaudhury discovers his light, feel-good cinema disguises an urgent, often even...
3 Idiots, autographs, Boman Irani, Chekov, Chetan Bhagat, consummate prankster, controversy, Farhan Qureshi, feel-good cinema, Film and Television Institute in Pune (FTII), Five Point Someone, Frank Capra, Gandhigiri, Ghajini, Jaddu ki jhappi, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Munnabhai MBBS, Partition, Phunsukh Wangdu, pragmatism, Raju Hirani, Sriram Raghavan, stereotype, success, Suresh Hirani, TEHELKA office, The Beatles, The Bet, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Volume 7 Issue 03, whip-crack humour
Strangely, as the first months passed, my father’s death left me with a powerful gift
75, Akbar Padamsee, Badminton, Bejan Daruwalla, Bengal, Bihar, Binayak Sen, Charles Correa, death, diets, doctors, elixir of youth, father, gynaecologist, haemorrhage, Homai Vyarwala, human, Lawyer, Madhepura, meditation, MF Husain, mrityunjay mantra, neurosurgeon, Old age, orthopaedist, paediatrician, Ram Jethmalani, reputation, RK Laxman, Sanjeev Nanda, Shanti Bhushan, Shoma Chaudhury, Soli Sorabjee, surgeon, tea gardens, Volume 6 Issue 37, Waheeda Rehman, yoga, youth
Our hysteria for ready answers has become a dangerous trap. A bomb blast conspirator's explosive confession poses a challenge...
Nandita Das’s gripping directorial debut, Firaaq—a fearless exploration of Gujarat 2002 — should be the talking point everywhere
After his blockbuster RDB, Shoma Chaudhury previews Rakeysh Mehra’s much awaited new film
Nadeem Aslam draws the fine line between fundamentalism and bigotry for Shoma Chaudhury
Mohammad Hanif, author of the blackly humorous book, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, talks to Shoma Chaudhury about things...
A radically different India by 2020. Powerful winds of change. And always, the potential for implosion. Nandan Nilekani and...
Author Vikram Chandra wrote a magnum opus on Mumbai's underbelly. He interprets his city in the wake of the...
2006 train bombings, 26/11, 9/11, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, bomb, cleve cartmill, communal force, Dawood Ibrahim, Guantanamo, hindu right, holocaust, Kashmir, limited war, media, MNS, Mumbai attacks, nuclear, Pakistan, Partition, Patriot Act, POK, politics, propaganda, public opinion, robert heinlein, Sacred Games, Shiv Sena, sourth asia, Taj Hotel, Taliban, terrorist, tom clancy, underworld, Volume 5 Issue 50