India@75 1973: Janam is formedTEAM FRONTLINESafdar Hashmi’s killing drew nationwide attention to Janam and its protest theatre.
ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT POETRY Poetically defiant Ashutosh SharmaRegime after regime has clamped down on anti-establishment poetry, but the Narendra Modi government in the last seven years has sought to demonise art
Agra Fort Mughal bastionShashank Shekhar SinhaThe Agra Fort, a World Heritage Site, is the only fort in India to have been inhabited by all the early Mughal emperors.
Interview: Perumal Murugan The story of a mother Ziya Us SalamInterview with the Tamil writer Perumal Murugan.
Movie Review: Nayee Neralu Intriguing shadowsMAITHILI RAOAt the centre of Girish Kasaravalli's Nayee Neralu is the character of Venkatalaxmi, who uses a superstitious belief to subvert tradition. (Published
Freedom of Expression A battle wonANUPAMA KATAKAMin MumbaiThe Mumbai High Court's directive to the Central Board of Film Certification to clear Anand Patwardhan's documentary film `War and Peace' throws up im
Literature ‘What Mother ought to know’, ‘Body and blood’ & ‘The parable of the sower’: Three Malayalam stories by Gracy in translationGracyThree Malayalam stories in translation...
Short Story in Translation “Do you suppose it’s the east wind?”: An Urdu short story in translationThe bond between Hindus and Muslims is a special zone of literature, and unique to the subcontinent. Urdu fiction in particular carries its complexiti
ARCHITECTURE Classic examples of Hoysala excellence in sculptureSUDHA MAHALINGAMPhotographs by SUDHA MAHALINGAMThe filigreed carvings of the magnificent monuments of Belur and Halebidu in Karnataka bring alive mythology, and the mores of the Hoysala period.
Belur and Halebidu: Eloquence in stoneSUDHA MAHALINGAMPhotographs by SUDHA MAHALINGAMThe filigreed carvings of the magnificent monuments of Belur and Halebidu in Karnataka bring alive mythology, and the mores of the Hoysala period.
Interview: Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy: ‘We are all living in a graveyard of sorts’ZIYA US SALAMInterview with Arundhati Roy.
Kannada lexicographer G. Venkatasubbaiah: A centenarian’s life-long scholarly journey with the Kannada language as a lexicographer, grammarian, writer and editorMURALIDHARA KHAJANEG. Venkatasubbaiah dedicated his life to the development of Kannada linguistics, lexicography and research studies. At 107, he continues his ardent as
Heritage A new book, by V.K. Thiruvady, traces the history of the Lalbagh garden in Bengaluru Vikhar Ahmed SayeedPhotographs by K. Murali KumarV.K. Thiruvady’s book on Lalbagh, arguably one of India’s best public gardens, provides an evocative account of this fantastic arboreal world in Benga
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.