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