Verve • 26th May 2026

On The Menu: The Cannibal-Culinary Story

ESSAY: Biting into the filmic subgenre of the cannibal food film

ASAP | art • 15th May 2026

Shape-Shifting: Stories from South Asia Now

ESSAY: A film programme put a spotlight on how filmmakers have responded to manifold crises in the region

ASAP | art • 15th May 2026

On South Asia Now: Challenging Official Narratives

ESSAY: Reflections on how film festivals create alternative spaces for the circulation of formally and politically distinct cinema

Sunday Mid-Day • 3rd May 2026

What was old is new again

FEATURE: Designer Mansi Mehta who led the restoration of a century-old Parsi home in Bandra gives us a walkthrough

ASAP | art • 27th April 2026

On “Difficult Children”: In Conversation with Kanu Behl

INTERVIEW: Behl talked to us about exhibition parity, a mature audience’s need for a more grown-up cinema, and more

Sunday Mid-Day • 2nd April 2026

Jamdani Politics

FEATURE: We thread together how recent Indo-Bangla tensions and trade disruptions have impacted the Jamdani industry

ASAP | art • 5th February 2026

Of Second Chances: Anoop Lokkur’s Don’t Tell Mother

REVIEW: As products of adult reminiscence, these films are essential do-overs, second chances at first failings

Motherland • 22nd December 2025

Back to the Roots

ESSAY: In the last decade, independent directors have coined a new language of Indian horror

Sunday Mid-Day • 19th October 2025

AI see what you did there

FEATURE: An AI-fuelled plagiarism controversy around the work of an artist has thrown up questions of
authenticity and ethics

Sunday Mid-Day • 22nd September 2025

A dip to salvation

FEATURE: In this Braj language film, the Mahakumbh becomes the site of a miraculous transformation

Frontline • 19th August 2025

Can Ghosts Teach Gender Equality?

ESSAY: Horror comedies have examined societal misogyny in the guise of giving audiences a scare and a laugh

Sunday Mid-Day • 3rd August 2025

Coming of age in the nineties

FEATURE: Ankur Singla’s nostalgia-laced debut recalls a decade characterised by tougher parenting styles and fraught father-son ties

Sunday Mid-Day • 6th April 2025

Same fight, new ring

FEATURE: As WWE’s broadcasting relationship with Sony India ends, and it heads to Netflix, we ask why its appeal has endured

Serendipity Arts Foundation • 29th March 2025

Travelling Through Time, Space, and Form: The Indian Art Publication

ESSAY: Exploring the ideas and processes behind a curatorial project at the eighth edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival

Sunday Mid-Day • 8th June 2025

The hills are calling

FEATURE: A new film centres a young urban woman who finds healing and hope among the Himalayas and its people

Sunday Mid-Day • 6th July 2025

Murder in the Mountains

FEATURE: A murder mystery set in the hills of Northeast India goes old school

The People in Places Show • 15th January 2025

EPISODE 1 | The People in Places Show

Featuring Kannada film actor, writer and director Raj B Shetty in Mangalore. We meet people in places that inspire them and their work

Sunday Mid-Day • 25th May 2025

True colours

FEATURE: A new comedy probes Indian society’s colourism while shining a light on India and Africa’s shared histories

Critical Collective • 20th February 2025

Visualizing Kumar Gandharva's Restless, Meditative Musicality

REVIEW: Amit Dutta’s film Phool ka Chhand visualizes the ceaselessly improvisatory nature of Kumar Gandharva’s music

ASAP | art • 22nd March 2025

Cycles of Enclosure: Jayant Somalkar’s Sthal

REVIEW: Marathi film Sthal (A Match) highlights how caste and class dynamics intertwine to reinforce societal constraints

Sunday Mid-Day • 22nd April 2025

Why a music great locked herself away for decades

FEATURE: A film at the Parda Faash Film Festival explores the legacy of Annapurna Devi

Sunday Mid-Day • 11th May 2025

Jamming on the highway

FEATURE: The directors and actors of the upcoming thriller Pune Highway discuss their stage-to-screen adaptation

Critical Collective • 20th February 2025

A Camera Pictures Life In and Beyond Sudhir Patwardhan's Canvas

REVIEW: Harshil Bhanushali’s camera goes in search of the places and denizens of Bombay that inspired Patwardhan’s work

Sunday Mid-Day • 17th November 2024

Break ke baad

FEATURE: A short film shot on 16-mm film and winner of two National Awards, is a nostalgic ode to Kannada cinema’s golden era