For more than five decades, Sudhir Patwardhan has balanced medicine and art, documenting the people and changing landscapes of Mumbai. A new exhibition of his drawings offers a closer look at how his practice and subjects evolved. In...
The extreme sound of Bhawanichak Box Competition
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, a South African of Indian-Tamil origin, for her work as a judge and human rights lawyer, at a time when the panel said international law faces “tremendous pressure” and its institutions are...
Just as we did in July, last weekend we saw crowds turning out on the streets—some to protest against alleged irregularities in Election Commission practices, others to demand safety for women in public spaces. While my phone showed images...
A mysterious sea creature terrorises a coastal town in this Canadian thriller series created by Jesse McKeown. Starring Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis, Charlie Heaton and Natasha Henstridge. (Netflix) This sequel to The Social Network...
India was one of British writer Jeffrey Archer’s biggest markets, and he had said that about 50 million Indians had read his 1979 novel Kane and Abel, featuring a long-running rivalry between a wealthy banker and an immigrant. Archer died on 5...
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s climate crisis film Digger, starring Tom Cruise as an oil tycoon, is a wild punt that never comes close to delivering on its political and cultural criticisms. It’s all stops and starts, lurches and stumbles. Iñárritu...
Most gyms have a couple of boxes, which are lightweight, movable, made of wood or foam, and measuring 16-24 inches in height. Each is designed to be flipped over to make it taller, giving gym goers two height options, depending on their fitness...
