Touseful Islam

The 1966 classic turns Uttam Kumar’s star image into a quietly devastating study of fame and selfhood

Twenty-five years after its debut on Cartoon Network, its dystopian vision of technology, alienation and lost memory feels startlingly contemporary

Season 3’s scruffy wild dragon may also be Westeros’s wisest character: he wants no crown, no cause and absolutely no part in the Targaryens’ war

Merchant Ivory’s Shakespeare Wallah captures a changing India where colonial theatre gives way to the glamour, confidence and mass appeal of Hindi cinema

He revolutionised modern prose and embodied heroic endurance, yet remained haunted by wounds neither fame nor courage could heal

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Humera Channa transform separation into something larger than heartbreak

Remembering the man who found history and truth inside every meal

More than a century later, his two-word confession still captures the exhaustion that sleep cannot cure

In gestures, phrases and old griefs, one generation continues to live inside another

Long-form storytelling has created space for actors whose careers mainstream cinema interrupted, underestimated or abandoned

His journey from real estate spectacle to a second presidency is a story of ambition, grievance, resilience and relentless self-invention

Beneath the romance and poetry of 'Kabhi Kabhie' lies a social truth that still endures

Video game recasts the world’s most enduring male fantasy as a young man shaped by uncertainty, instruction and growth

How a snack says more about travel, memory and the subcontinent than a classroom composition ever could

What once felt like fear of slaughter became, in adulthood, a confrontation with poverty

Rituals are sanctioned, seasonal, even sacred, yet leave residues that can’t be laundered

Remember that story of an overpriced goat and its mysterious buyer?

Through Nazrul’s words and Firoza Begum’s voice, farewell becomes something more unsettling: a promise never to disappear

On World Tea Day today, a reflection on how the simple offer continues to turn tea into a ritual of pause, warmth and human connection

What happens when murder is no longer an exception to be solved, but a social erosion to be recorded?