By: Bharati K. Dubey Making Manto was tough for Nandita Das. But the actor-director persisted because she was motivated to spread awareness about 'Mantoyiat' - the desire to be fearless...

By: Salwat Ali Jahangir With Portrait Of Akbar (1614) The venerable tradition of painting official portraits is well past its glory days but official represen­tations of leaders still tend to...

By: Sushant Singh Fascism is back in fashion, at least the political term is back in public discourse in a big way. It was used by the Pune police recently,...

By: Sarah Perry Olga Tokarczuk, whose 2007 novel Flights was awarded the International Man Booker in 2018, is a figure of considerable stature and controversy in her native Poland. An...

By: Kitty Empire It’s easy to be sniffy about franchises, especially when they absorb all oxygen and shelf space. But there is such pleasure in catching up with characters in...

By: K.C. Vijaya Kumar Ruskin Bond finds joy in the small things. It could be a flowering shrub near a brook; a crow taking a swig from his beer; or...

By: Krishnadas Rajagopal Senior advocate Fali S. Nariman’s God Save the Hon’ble Supreme Court is a reminder that the institution of the Supreme Court of India is cast in stone,...

By: Dr.Tasaduk Hussain Itoo Road traffic accidents are an outcome of the interplay of various factors, some of which are the length of road network, vehicle population, human population and...

By: M Neelika Jayawardane Last week, the respected and well-known American artist Hank Willis Thomas' work was exhibited by the prestigious South African gallery, the Goodman, at the Johannesburg Art...

BY: Dr Ajmal Rashid Bhat The number of adults and older teens with diabetes in valley is increasing at a faster rate. Diabetes: 'The hardest thing is waking up and...