Kamala Harris Is A Desi At Heart

'I think of that young baby, still in her diapers, balancing with her arms held up by her mother, a Tamil woman wearing a salwar kameez and a dupatta, seated on a stoop,' recalls Aseem Chhabra.......

Aseem Chhabra on Obama's victory

It happened at 11 pm on November 4. Half an hour earlier I was in a car with a friend when the WNYC talk show host Brian Lehrer said that Barack Obama had enough electoral votes, so that when at......

Gay, colourful and proud on Delhi's streets

Under Delhi's beautiful November afternoon sun, nearly two thousand young men and women marched on Sunday to mark the city's third Queer Pride parade. This year's colourful and celebratory......

Lots Of OTT Goodies To Watch, Guys!

Literary adaptations, whistleblower pursuits, kidnapped Santas and South India's biggest stars, Sukanya Verma lists them all on OTT this week. Emilia PerezWhere to watch? MubiLanguage: French,......

The Swades State Of Mind

As Swades turns 20, Aseem Chhabra looks back at the film that spoke to him. IMAGE: Gayatri Joshi and Shah Rukh Khan in Swades. Several years ago, I had lunch with the then finance minister of......

Discuss Shashi Kapoor with Aseem Chhabra, RIGHT HERE!

Are you a Shashi Kapoor fan? Is there anything you'd love to know about the actor, his movies, his rich heritage and the person that he is? Want to know something about him that nobody knows?......

2024 Belongs To Payal Kapadia!

All We Imagine as Light has been on several critics' best of the year lists, including Sight and Sound (Payal Kapadia appeared on the magazine's cover, perhaps a first for an Indian filmmaker), to......

When Irrfan made Paan Singh Tomar a household name

The fascinating story of this man was one of the most searched topics on Google after the trailer was launched with Irrfan's Tomar, his gaze fixed at a journalist interviewing him, mouthing that......