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Vikram Johri: Ordinary gay lives
When HBO's honchos decided to cancel Looking after the show's second season last year, they greenlit a wrap-up movie that would, fans were promised, tie up any loose ends
Uttaran Das Gupta: Mother of rickshawpullers
When Mahasweta Devi died last month, the first person I thought of was Byapari. Tracing him down on Facebook, I called him, demanding a new story
Shuma Raha: Star Trek at 50
Star Trek Beyond is visually spectacular - with stunning special effects and gazillions of zero-gravity action
Vikram Johri: The box-office sultan
With Sultan, Salman Khan's latest starrer, on course to become the highest-grossing Hindi film of all time, the actor's position as the unrivalled king of Bollywood has been further cemented
Dhruv Munjal: What women's tennis needs
What women's tennis needs is a golden generation - one that can make matches competitive and viewing more riveting
Vikram Johri: Anurag Kashyap's dark, unidimensional world
Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays Ramanna, a serial killer, in the recently released Raman Raghav 2.0, loosely based on the story of the real Raman Raghav, who terrorised Mumbai in the 1960s
Shuma Raha: Surrogacy rising
Bollywood biggies Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan and their wives used surrogates to have a child in 2011 and 2013 respectively
Aabhas Sharma: The great (foot)ball of China
China is methodically and strategically attacking football at different levels
Shuma Raha: Bollywood hits IS
The idea is to infuriate and unnerve the jihadis who live by an ultra-orthodox interpretation of Islam and consider music to be frivolous and unholy
Vikram Johri: Regional films on a roll
Sairat by Nagraj Manjule is a Marathi film about young love between members of different castes. Thithi by Raam Reddy is a Kannada film about the death of a family patriarch
Shuma Raha: High on haldi
Now haldi doodh has gone global, and it's got health freaks and food faddists all blissed out
Shuma Raha: It's Bond. Jane Bond?
Indeed, ever since actor Daniel Craig refused a £68-million offer to play 007 for the fifth time
Desh Gaurav Chopra Sekhri: History in the making at Roland Garros
Playing better and with solid purpose this clay court season, Nadal is looking to win his tenth title here, and will ask some difficult questions of anyone he is pitted against
Vikram Johri: A modern classic
With Wolf Hall winning the Bafta award for Best TV series this week, Hilary Mantel's novel has now won accolades across the literature and television firmaments
Vikram Johri: A missed chance
In pre-liberalisation India, the film industry - both the art circuit and Bollywood - routinely portrayed industrialists as villainous and all-powerful agents stacked against the common man
Makarand R Paranjape: The deepest Orientalist
The author, or should I say authority, behind these words is Sheldon Pollock, Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University, and Mentor-Chief Editor of the Murty Library
Shuma Raha: The horrid fascination of Game of Thrones
From what I had heard, Game of Thrones, HBO's hit TV series based on George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels, definitely seemed to be in the dungeons-and-dragons mould
Kranti Saran: The mentality of ressentiment
Makarand Paranjape has argued in The Indian Express that Sheldon Pollock, the editor of the Murty Classical Library generously funded by Rohan Murty, ought to be removed
Shreekant Sambrani: Slow coach romance
Will the Gatimaan generation have the luxury of indulging in such sweet nostalgia?
Aabhas Sharma: The man who changed football
He wore an unfancied number on the back of his jersey. He lacked the consistency of Pele, the wizardry of Maradona and the flamboyance of George Best, yet Johan Cruyff was nevertheless the most influential football player of all time
