Reflection / Why a film from 1976 still feels like a South Asian middle-class story in 2026
31 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Beneath the romance and poetry of 'Kabhi Kabhie' lies a social truth that still endures
31 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Pop culture / 007 First Light: A Bond for the age of becoming
30 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Video game recasts the world’s most enduring male fantasy as a young man shaped by uncertainty, instruction and growth
30 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Reflection / The cutlet and the ‘journey by train’ essay
29 May 2026, 12:41 PM
How a snack says more about travel, memory and the subcontinent than a classroom composition ever could
29 May 2026, 12:41 PM
Eid reflection / The real gore is hunger
28 May 2026, 19:00 PM
What once felt like fear of slaughter became, in adulthood, a confrontation with poverty
28 May 2026, 19:00 PM
Reflection / A ritual of red
28 May 2026, 13:08 PM
Rituals are sanctioned, seasonal, even sacred, yet leave residues that can’t be laundered
28 May 2026, 13:08 PM
Reflections / Goatfather: A caprine comedy
26 May 2026, 21:07 PM
Remember that story of an overpriced goat and its mysterious buyer?
26 May 2026, 21:07 PM
For those who left but never departed: Nazrul’s ‘Ami chirotore dure chole jabo’
24 May 2026, 20:30 PM
Through Nazrul’s words and Firoza Begum’s voice, farewell becomes something more unsettling: a promise never to disappear
24 May 2026, 20:30 PM
‘Cha khaben?’: The question that slows the world down
21 May 2026, 19:42 PM
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
21 May 2026, 19:42 PM
Who was El Mencho? How one man’s death led to US and Canada issuing travel warnings
Understanding the power and reach of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
23 February 2026, 19:03 PM
The man behind 'Inquilab Zindabad'
How Hasrat Mohani gave the subcontinent its most enduring protest slogan, and also wrote one of the most tender ghazals
22 February 2026, 19:04 PM
Jana Aranya: A cinematic take on the quiet commerce of conscience and compromise
50 years on, the last among Satyajit Ray's Calcutta Trilogy remains relevant
20 February 2026, 17:28 PM
Goodbye to the middleman of truth
Mani Shankar Mukherjee passes away
20 February 2026, 16:58 PM
'Ciao ragazzi': Farewell to Mariano Rubinacci
He elevated tailoring from manufacture to meaning
19 February 2026, 17:27 PM
Faiz Ahmad Faiz: When romanticism weaved into revolution
He made poetry a refuge for beauty and a weapon against tyranny
14 February 2026, 22:10 PM
A tune of love telling the tale of loss
Penned by the melancholic genius Hasrat Mohani and immortalised by the soulful voice of Ghulam Ali it was a composition that captured the hearts of millions across the subcontinent especially with its picturisation in the 1982 film, Nikaah
14 February 2026, 15:28 PM
Khushwant Singh: Between laughter and lament
In an age increasingly allergic to nuance, Khushwant Singh’s literary works remain instructive -- reminding that literature is not a decoration of society but its interrogation; that humour can coexist with grief
2 February 2026, 13:17 PM