Uttaran Das Gupta

Now that there will be fewer trams on the city's streets, it will not only be an ecological loss but also an aesthetic and political one

Looking backwards while going forward can prove to be a tricky business

Heckler's veto or preventing harm? Censoring films that cause offence opens up a can of worms

Watching the restored version of the 1976 film Manthan reminds one of the Emergency but also gives hope for a renewed democracy

An accusation of obscenity is usually not an attempt to control prurient art but to limit its radical potential

Laxmibai Tilak, a contemporary writer, recounts how plague camps, where patients were quarantined, were 'kingdoms of the god of death'

Earlier, Bollywood war flicks were about defending India's borders. Now, they are all about vengeance

Historian Sugata Bose, in his new book, makes a compelling case for Asia to embrace its political, cultural, and economic diversity as it reclaims its centrality in the world

Ranbir Kapoor winning the Filmfare Best Actor award for 'Animal', while Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig missing out Oscar nominations for 'Barbie' have sparked controversies

'Past Lives' and 'Three of Us' celebrate the pragmatism of love over the heady impulsiveness of romance

The film directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra is always aware of the fact that the remarkable rags-to-riches story of IPS Manoj Sharma is the exception and not the norm

The three blockbuster films delivered by the Bollywood heartthrob show a definite turn in his oeuvre

The film starring Ranbir Kapoor and Bobby Deol unleashes the desires of many Indians accustomed to violence

Set in the mid-1960s, the Zoya Akhtar film signals virtues through reference to corporate greed, gender politics, and global warming, but delivers solutions that are too easy

The struggles of a young couple to find economic security in a small town is a realistic take on the romanticised mofussil of Hindi cinema

A similar self-fashioning is evident in the two other books he wrote on India - A Wounded Civilization (1977) and A Million Mutinies Now (1990)

Steven Spielberg's spy drama on Mossad's mission to kill Palestinian militants interrogated the ethics of state-sponsored vengeance

The 30th-anniversary edition of Vikram Seth's landmark novel A Suitable Boy is a timely reminder of India's nascent democratic aspirations

Western and Japanese artists found inspiration for post-humanist visions in the years following Hiroshima and Nagasaki

A gendered perspective on conflict - local or international - is essential because women are often targeted as part of conflict strategy