In his centenary year, a tribute to the maestro who led India’s new wave with panache.

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25-08-202331 STORIES

‘Mrinal da was an argumentative filmmaker’: Goutam Ghose

The director of classics such as Paar (1984) and Padma Nadir Majhi (1993) said Sen was uncompromising both as a filmmaker and as a human being.

Gujjar-Bakarwal agitation: Why Kashmiri tribals are up in arms

Tensions escalate as the government pushes to extend Scheduled Tribe privileges to non-tribal communities.

Ashutosh Sharma

‘India still functions as an imaginative paradigm for the West’: Dorothy Figueira

The author talks about her intriguing engagement with the Gita and its translations.

Abinash Dash Choudhury

‘Art must emerge from life and its tribulations’: Ganesh Haloi

Sharp as ever at 86, Haloi urges artists to draw inspiration from Indian nature painting over Western realism.

Choice, culture, and creativity: Review of ‘The Essential U.R. Ananthamurthy’

This anthology makes Ananthamurthy seem more like a remote legend but misses his everyday intellectual presence, eccentricity, and idiosyncrasies.

Shiv Visvanathan

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