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NEW DELHI, 24/03/2017: Eminent Writer Krishna Sobti during an interview with The Hindu at her residence in New Delhi on Friday.
Photo: R.V. Moorthy

Writing without a full stop

The nonagenarian Hindi writer Krishna Sobti has been awarded the 53rd Jnanpith Award.

The past as present

The attacks on medieval Muslim rulers by the Hindu right wing constitute not only an attempt to rewrite the past but also to interpret the present in

Indian Bollywood Bollywood personality Lekh Tandon attends a prayer meeting for Bollywood film producer and director Ravi Chopra in Mumbai late November 15, 2014. AFP PHOTO/STR

Star in the shadows

Lekh Tandon (1929-2017) helmed several memorable Hindi films but remained an unsung hero all his life.

Kundan Shah, flim director, during an interview to The Hindu Business Line in Mumbai on April 3, 2014.
Photo: Paul Noronha

Kundan Shah: Everyman’s director

Kundan Shah (1947-2017) stole hearts with his meaningful craft that offered a peek into middle-class lives.

Fear of ideas

The Sangh Parivar ideologue Dinanath Batra has demanded the removal of a poem by Paash, the revolutionary Punjabi poet, from an NCERT textbook, claimi

BANGALORE, 03/01/2008: Tom Alter at the launch of Poetry with Young People (a collection of poems by Rishi Valley School students in the age group between 12 and 18 years, written during the course of decade long workshop, in Bangalore on January 03, 2008.
Photo: G.P. Sampath Kumar

Tom Alter: Doyen of dignity

Tom Alter (1950-2017) carved a unique space for himself in Hindi cinema and television and played a major role in reviving Urdu theatre with his robus

Bangalore: 28/01/2011: Distinguished Writer in English and Central Sahitya Akademi Awardee Nayantara Sahgal at the Nanjanagudu Thirumalamba Award function at NMKRV College in Bangalore on Friday. Photo: V Sreenivasa Murthy

‘It’s about the unmaking of modern India’

Interview with Nayantara Sahgal.

Chennai: 05/08/2017, For City: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

A Santhal suppressed

Once hailed as the brave new voice from Jharkhand, the award-winning writer Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar faces allegations of maligning the Santhals in hi

Bhopal_BJP National President Amit Shah paying tribute to Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay during his three-days visit in Bhopal on friday. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and party leaders also present on this occasion. ----- photo A_M_Faruqui (18/08/2017)

Conjuring an icon

The BJP’s attempts to exalt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya are part of a strategy to establish a rival iconography in the public consciousness.

‘It is time for the ulema to introspect’

Interview with Prof. Tahir Mahmood, former Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities.

Harking back to a cherished culture

Hindi cinema is gradually being reduced to a handmaiden of the ruling dispensation. If in the years after Independence it worked as a glue to unite th

Thane : BJP President Amit Shah release a publication at the inauguration of 29th Savarkar Sahitya Sammelan in Thane on Friday.PTI Photo (PTI4_21_2017_000219B)

Distorting history

In Rajasthan, Savarkar is the new hero of history textbooks that give short shrift to Gandhi and Nehru and the movements they led during the country’s