By Ratna Raman. The idea of women as attractive but foolish was acceptable, because everywhere average women had less rights and dignity than the average man.

R Kalpana reviews 'Nayanthara – Beyond the Fairy Tale'. Why not enjoy this moment when there is so much of happiness, love and romance in two people’s life?

By Amartya Acharya. The success of the Holdovers is partly due to its depiction of the 1970s as a decade where people lived beyond being wallowed in cynicism.

By Tarun Byaragi. If you also love stories, the next time you read a book, or watch a movie, try to analyse the story through a lens of justice.

A short story by Ajith Pillai. "Whenever despondency weighed him down, M rushed back to the sprawling 10,000 square feet space called ‘Home’..."

By Narendra Pachkhede. This is a choreography of chaos, a Sufi whirling, a mirror with no reflection, something unnamed—and unnamable, an ethic of becoming, an aesthetic of surrender.

By Amartya Acharya. Because what is effective sci-fi, if not an allegorization of the times, of a world being utterly controlled under the stupid whims of a billionaire, or the exploration of the final frontier—space.

By Amartya Acharya. 'Sinners' has the space and potential to be political, to be historically accurate, and, yet...

Rakhshanda Jalil. No matter how sick at heart we might occasionally get, we see it as our self-appointed task to keep on recording.

By Tathagata Chatterjee. Ray’s masterpiece was not made to be liked. It was made to be remembered.

By Ratna Raman. Being with the mother, who provided both nourishment and bodily contact, was a source of joy and delight and comfort. Being away from the mother was a space of unease or danger.