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Can mithai and baklava replace chocolate? Two Mumbai stores try to find out

The Byculla-based establishment hopes to reinvent sugary Indian treats and make them a fashionable gifting idea again.

Ballet instructor Yehuda Maor is getting Mumbai's youths on to their toes

Maor, an Israeli-American ballet teacher, is helping popularise the classical dance among the young and restless of Mumbai

Stories from the states: How enumerators are dealing with suspicion

While the Kerala government has vehemently opposed CAA and NPR and has said that it will not collect data for these, people are anxious

Female TV comics brandish fantastic weapons: bravery, wit, self-deprecation

McEnany and Bamford, slowed by bad periods, have earned their big moments

How auctioneers are bidding big, selling everything from shawls to comics

With the number of local auctioneers growing, so has the need to differentiate and find niches

There's a long lineup of musical treats in store for Mumbai this February

Festival-goers in the city can look forward to sampling diverse musical traditions in February

Senegal at sea

Over the years, one has learnt to expect very little from the Academy Awards but Atlantics was robbed of a place in the nominations this year

Meet Paris-based collective Les Souffleurs that whispers poems to strangers

Les Souffleurs are in India to convince strangers to slow down by whispering poems into their ears

Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho is an utter master of unsubtle symbolism

His indictments, variously of capitalism and of establishments, are clear as daylight

Sudhir Patwardhan's tireless documenting of Mumbai's people and places

It is impossible for Mumbaikars not to glimpse themselves or someone they know in Patwardhan's oeuvre

Privacy concerns over facial recognition systems aimed at ordinary citizens

Facial recognition technology can be used to identify missing children or protesting citizens, it also raises serious privacy concerns

The most exciting screen entertainment to look forward to in 2020

What will we see in 2020's films and web series? Ranjita Ganesan sifts through the entertainment pipeline to find titles with the most promise

The treats in store at the latest edition of Mumbai Art Weekend

The Mumbai Gallery Weekend will return for its eighth, even more egalitarian edition, hoping to draw diverse crowds to the city's art district

Improbable lessons for today from a propagandist film of a century ago

The restoration itself is a reminder of the magic of colours and countries coming together

Generation 1947: A Mumbai exhibition on stories from India's first citizens

Through interviews with citizens of the subcontinent born before 1947, the Citizens' Archive of India is piecing together the social history of India in the early years of its freedom.

Terminator is rescued by Sarah Connor, its original blazing heroine

This review is based on a 2D screening, although the 3D version likely also suffered from the same moments of near-total darkness

In good faith

The result of young Muslim creators taking charge of their stories has been fresh and optimistic, a welcome departure from the lazy demonising or fetishising of the past.

What women want

Zeenath Zahara's second piece, 'College girls and our glamour boys!', stung men in particular

From angry young man to cool old gentleman, 50 years of Amitabh Bachchan

From playing the angry young man in the 1970s to the cool old gentleman in recent years, Amitabh Bachchan has extended his superstardom more than anyone before him.

Flexing and filmmaking

Being a favoured form of entertainment before cinema, physical culture became a ready subject for some of the earliest films globally