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RED SIEGE
Lalgarh movement under a red siege
Lalmohan Tudu’s family is in mourning. His mother, seated on the mud floor of their crumbling house, mechanically turns the pages of a newspaper. The street is silent, no sound of traffic or...
VICTIMS OF TERROR
Different state, same targets
An old Kondh woman smokes her cigar as she walks past Narayanpatna police station. She does not look at the place where K Singanna, one of the leaders of a popular adivasi uprising, was killed in a...
WEST BENGAL
The salwa judum of Bengal
There are four things we live in fear of — police, elephants, the Maoists and the harmath,” said Rukmini in a village...
FILM REVIEW
Love, factually
What a year this is turning out to be for Tamil cinema! Forget good films or perfect films or successful films or...
BODY AND MIND
Fishing for balance
In yogasanas, the most important aspect of every posture is its counter posture. In a specific posture, you bend and...
TOLLYWOOD
Twin dip and some fresh spouts
Their vanishing act has been more dramatic than the plots of the films they acted. It’s going to be a couple of years...
KATHAKALI
Feminine tandava grace
One day, three years ago, Renjini Suresh was performing at Kochi. There were several foreigners watching the...
ODISSI
Jagannath’s bahu from the west
Ancient European churches with frescoes on their ceilings have long been integral to the culture of her country, but...
PAST FORWRD

Film world neither Christian nor too brotherly
Is acting in a movie a citizen’s fundamental right? Is the film world also caste-ridden? Are trade unions becoming..Read
SEDITION AND PERDITION

Breaking news: Cancer on an illogical rampage
In a major investigation done just by adding up the findings of all previous investigation findings on the subject of..Read
LOONY LIFE

Being raised by an adolescent
My eleven-year-old son is breaking into early adolescence and I am breaking into bodily rashes. Setting aside his..Read

Two trunks, many branches
Ananda Shankar Jayant straddles a couple of traditional forms from the country’s south and, apart from that, leads a..Read

The ardhanareeshwar elegance
Her shringara-soaked emotions light up the looks of the heroine she portrays. Off stage, she prefers the traditional..Read

Beeline to quicksand
When Kantha finally saw her father for the first time, she was 18 years old. And, the man was dead. Early this year,..Read

Edie, Thea and a single man
There is a moment that comes in your life, if you’re queer. It’s a moment of utter loneliness, when you realise that..Read

The Leopard’s Immutable Spots
The showboating centrepiece of this foreign-film Oscar nominee is a five-minute tracking shot that begins with the..Read

On the trail, for the record
It is still dark when we set out beside the swift and silently flowing Tamraparni. The only sound is the rumbling of..Read

Education in sex, lies and videotapes
The suspension and national parading of the sexual life as shameful of Aligarh Muslim University Reader Shiras has..Read

Casting goddesses in bronze
Phool Singh Besra has no second thoughts when he says that his Dhokra-style craft is inspired by the age-old culture..Read

All frets and a taste of the blues
In Munich or in Mumbai, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, 57, and his son and disciple Salil Bhatt believe, the acceptance..Read

Eklavya bows to arjun no more
Driving through Chennai’s roads, it is hard to miss those ubiquitous hoardings, posters, wall paintings and signboards..Read

Stand up on your shoulders
We are almost coming to the last bit of the asanas to learn in the first class of a basic yoga course. Now it is time..Read

The minstrel minister
In the early 1980s, A Palaniapillai and his team staged a street play in a tribal and Dalit area in Coimbatore. To..Read
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