カテゴリー: Culture
Analysis: public opinion shifting, but reaction from authorities may have related more to crackdown on fame cultureIt felt like a turning point. The arrest of one of China’s biggest pop stars on rape allegations had raised hopes that authorities were f…
India’s only all-women news organisation is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film-makers explain their inspiring courage and energyA woman explains how a group of four men repeatedly broke into her house and raped her; six times so far….
Most of the works, including stone and bronze sculptures, were bought from a US gallery run by alleged antiquities smuggler Subhash KapoorThe National Gallery of Australia will remove 14 works from its Asian art collection and return them to the Indian…
Beauty technician Sachi and cigarette seller Parveen yearn for ‘freedom lives’ where they can proudly flaunt their relationships with other women in this free-form filmAn unnerving cacophony opens Priya Sen’s Yeh Freedom Life: it plunges straight into …
The photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was shot dead last week while documenting the Taliban offensive in Afghanistan. His award-winning work for Reuters spanned some of the world’s most era-defining crises. He said: ‘I shoot for the common man who wants …
Gifted as a cub by a Maharajah to a young British boy, Singh lived at a house in Surrey before outgrowing his home and being driven in a black cab to the zoo. Now his story has been made into a book“He was,” London Zoo said, “one of the zoo’s politest …
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s film has high ambition but dodges complexity in favour of overheated melodramaPartly set in the Mumbai underworld, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s boxing drama aims at Raging Bull grit but has an unfortunately irresistible drift tow…
Some of the UK’s best-loved illustrators, including Axel Scheffler, Debi Gliori and Jackie Morris, have created artworks telling the stories of children in rural Nepal who struggle to get an education. The pictures are being raffled by the charity Unit…
Dharmasena Pathiraja’s 1978 drama, now revived, elegantly broaches universal themes with its story of city slickers disturbing a fishing villagePainstakingly restored from the sole surviving, badly damaged 35mm print, this realist drama from 1978 is we…
Eight-hour series about Nursultan Nazarbayev criticised for stoking cult of personality of 30-year rulerOliver Stone has interviewed Kazakhstan’s former president Nursultan Nazarbayev for a new eight-hour film series which has been attacked as a hagiog…
The actor, who has died at 98, gave expression to the intense cultural complexities raised as independence met modernity – with respect, depth and subtletyRarely do Narendra Modi and Imran Khan agree, but the death of Indian film great Dilip Kumar unit…
Star of Indian cinema who pioneered method acting in BollywoodThe veteran actor Dilip Kumar, who has died aged 98, was the pioneer of method acting in Bollywood. The early Indian film industry had drawn its acting traditions from the stage, and the exp…
From Mumbai noir to plantation Macbeth, Kerala’s more dynamic and independent-driven industry is responding urgently to the pandemicThe first occurrence of Covid-19 in India was officially recorded on 30 January last year in the city of Thrissur in the…
A young Tamil ponders the death of his grandmother’s carer in a hypnotic novel about ageing, longing and the aftermath of warIn Anuk Arudpragasam’s remarkable debut, The Story of a Brief Marriage, set in the north-east of Sri Lanka during the final mon…
Despite being busy with a new album, the musician and public transport enthusiast is also running an elevator serviceWith his slicked back Berlin-era Bowie haircut and fine wool suit, New Zealand singer-songwriter, public transport advocate and now, op…