World Coffee Day / Tea may have built the nation, but coffee booked the meeting
1 October 2026
Coffee may be the newer habit, but it has slipped neatly into an old Bengali tradition: sitting down and talking about everything and nothing
1 October 2026
Perspective / The Rumi we quote is not the Rumi who wrote
30 September 2026
Behind the Instagram aphorisms was a theologian for whom love meant surrender and the undoing of the self
30 September 2026
Retrospective / Before Sophia Loren became a global icon, she was a girl shaped by post-war Italy
20 September 2026
At 92, her journey from Sofia Scicolone of Pozzuoli to Oscar-winning screen legend remains a story of survival, reinvention and endurance
20 September 2026
Blast from the past / Controlling the Corleones: An offer you can't refuse
18 September 2026
In 2006, a video game offered something the film never could
18 September 2026
Retrospective / MF Husain: The barefoot modernist who painted a civilisation in motion
17 September 2026
Painter, filmmaker and cultural wanderer, he turned a lifetime of movement and contradiction into an unmistakable artistic idiom
17 September 2026
Retrospective / Oliver Stone at 80: The filmmaker who never stopped arguing with America
16 September 2026
From Platoon and JFK to Wall Street and Nixon, Stone built a career out of challenging America’s wars, myths and certainties
16 September 2026
Reflection / Can fractured families be repaired? Galpo Holeo Satti thinks so
30 August 2026
Tapan Sinha’s 1966 classic finds its answer in kindness, patience and the genius of Rabi Ghosh
30 August 2026
Reflection / The world changed. Nazrul did not become obsolete
28 August 2026
Fifty years after Nazrul’s death, the world is technologically unrecognisable but morally haunted by many of the same old divisions
28 August 2026
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
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
Goodbye to the middleman of truth
Mani Shankar Mukherjee passes away
20 February 2026
'Ciao ragazzi': Farewell to Mariano Rubinacci
He elevated tailoring from manufacture to meaning
19 February 2026
Faiz Ahmad Faiz: When romanticism weaved into revolution
He made poetry a refuge for beauty and a weapon against tyranny
14 February 2026
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
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