Namrata Joshi

Food is an offering. It must be aesthetically enticing for the beholder. Plating is just that.

An avid reader of magazines and a prolific writer for both Indian and international publications, Pankaj Mishra on the ways magazines impacted his life.

Gupta has a stellar cast, but loses out on this adv­antage with his slipshod direction.

Proves that all of us are ultimately alike, united in absurdity.

Ravish Kumar’s calm presence, hard-hitting stories, changes grammar of Hindi news TV

It’s the solid writing, sharp dialogue and the spot-on performances which shine along

The rough, the raw and the ribald are eng­agingly portrayed

Umesh captures the everyday humour, the chaos and din, makes canny observations about human behaviour and lays bare an entire social panorama.

Censors stall a film about the campaign in a poll Modi won

This jingoistic revenge fantasy underlines that the enemy does lie across the border.

One of the most popular and credible faces of Indian television journalism Ravish Kumar on life, the universe and everything

There is a hush and silence in my fields and it scares me to no end.

From a film critic's plate.

When bhakti is at its peak in jangly, sleepless Dilli, not all is all that grim. Not even noise pollution. Sometimes, in fact, it is so bad that it is good enough to make you weep in sheer joy

A sports film with phony feel-goodness and one that is far from inspirational.

Street food gone hopelessly bland, a papdi chaat that tastes more like cold porridge.

It seems like interesting times for documentaries chronicling the struggles of people on critical issues. What’s more they have also been able to reach out to the audiences.

'You need to know the people. So when I was writing Kahaani I made sure you are introduced to every single Bengali in the film. Then whether you like them or not is another question.'

A bit like Deewar, a lot like Namak Haraam. With Jha one would have expected a lot more complexity than what’s delivered.

He was firm but loveable, good-natured and real. Like my own grandad.