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Years in the making and boasting astonishing footage, All That Breathes tells the extraordinary story of the bodybuilding brothers getting pollution-choked birds flying again. We meet its directorThere is an astonishing moment near the beginning of All…
Millions flock to see return of actor Shah Rukh Khan, despite rightwing calls for a boycottFor Ganesh Lokhande, an usher at the Regal Cinema in Mumbai’s southern tip of Colaba, it’s been a quiet few years in the job. That was, until last week.Pathaan, …
Try as the industry might, Modi’s quasi-fascist politics cannot be set to jaunty music and helicopter stuntsIf recent Bollywood films are any indication, it is fair to say that India’s film industry is obsessed with Pakistan. Obsessed. Like standing ou…
Rappers Wild Wild Women use their searing lyrics to highlight the treatment of their sisters in a socially conservative country It’s not easy being a wild woman in India – as members of what is believed to be the country’s first female rap group can t…
Popular role-playing game is being cut off due to a dispute between US developer and its Chinese partnerMillions of Chinese players of the roleplaying epic World of Warcraft (WoW) will bid a sad farewell to the land of Azeroth, with the game set to go …
Victims reportedly bled to death when glass-coated strings were entangled around their necksSix people, including three children, have died after their throats were cut by glass-coated kite strings during an annual kite-flying festival in India.Hundred…
Col Tim Collins says ‘we don’t do notches on rifle butt’ and kill-count talk could increase Harry’s personal security riskHigh-profile British veterans have criticised the Duke of Sussex’s claim he had killed 25 Taliban soldiers while serving with the …
One of Tokyo’s most famous buildings was dismantled in April due to asbestos fears. Now 23 of the capsules have been saved for posterityTatsuyuki Maeda had more reason than most to feel a pang of regret as he joined admirers and passing office workers…
Colonialism was born from the greed for spices and led to today’s globalised world. I know because it’s my family’s storyIn 1603, James Lancaster arrived back in London after several years in pursuit of riches, bringing ships laden with peppercorns. He…
Forgotten Songs Collective aims to preserve ancient hill tribe’s music by bringing it to a global audienceIt was five years ago, as he sat around a fire lit deep in the forests covering the hills of Dima Hasao in Assam, that a shadow of sadness came in…
The Indian director was as surprised as anyone that his astonishingly larger than life, logic-defying action film has found a huge global audience. So is Hollywood on the horizon?Looking at the box-office numbers when RRR first opened in the US in Marc…
Freed from the shadow of 9/11, the country’s artists are building on a rich heritage – to international acclaimIn August, Pakistan’s three censor boards cleared Saim Sadiq’s award-winning film Joyland for release. Shot in Lahore, the film is about a yo…
The 76-year-old Indian artist reflects on the sectarian violence and misogyny that has inspired her work, including the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girlGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIndian artist Nalini Malani had been looking for…
Disney merchandise shows frowning bear looking at blank sheet of paper – a symbol of opposition to censorshipYears after he became character non grata in China, Winnie the Pooh is exacting quiet revenge against the country’s government in the form of D…
With Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest prizes, what next for one of the world’s most overlooked literary regions? Why isn’t more south Asian fiction published outside the subcontinent?…