カテゴリー: Culture
Artists from traditional communities and new wave performers to come together online for the country’s first drag conferenceTwo years ago, in early June 2019, a young man stepped on stage at a small cafe in the south Indian city of Hyderabad to sing La…
In One Thousand Dreams, award-winning photographer Robin Hammond hands the camera to refugees. Often reduced by the media’s toxic or well-meaning narratives, the portraits and interviews capture a different and more complex tale‘Never stop dreaming’: r…
Balan excels as a resolute forest officer battling sexism and corruption, as well as nature, in the latest satirical thriller from Newton director Amit V MasurkarAfter the success of his 2017 political black comedy Newton, director Amit V Masurkar once…
The re-release of Mira Nair’s unflinching 1988 story of street children, prostitutes and drug dealers shows it has lost none of its powerMira Nair’s Salaam Bombay! from 1988 was developed through journalistic research into the street children of Mumbai…
Flattening the majestic Murghal-inspired buildings is the latest stage in a hateful, vanity-fuelled campaign to de-Islamify IndiaAt the heart of New Delhi, the capital of India, sits a Mughal-inspired monument that houses the seat of the Indian parliam…
Viewers say scenes featuring Lady Gaga, boyband BTS and Justin Bieber are missing from Chinese versionFor many Chinese millennials, the US sitcom Friends was a window to the American way of life. Teachers would use the show to help students learn Engli…
Fast & Furious actor and wrestler apologises profusely on social media for offending Chinese fansFast & Furious star and wrestler John Cena began learning Mandarin Chinese nearly a decade ago. But this month, by showing off his linguistic skill…
The multi-genre artist’s bold sound and confrontation of Indian social problems are winning him a growing audience – and a surprise new collaborator in US rapper Lil BIn 2000, pregnant 19-year-old Harpreet Kaur was found dead in mysterious circumstance…
Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy attack Penguin Random House India for putting out book by a prime minister they say has mishandled Covid and persecuted writersLeading Indian authors Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy have spoken out against Penguin Random…
Why use the door, Salman? Bollywood megastar goes back to basics, pummelling everything in sight including narrative cohesionWhat was originally scheduled as India’s big Eid blockbuster for May 2020 is opening a year later in cinemas everywhere but Ind…
New Zealand band the Chills is releasing a new album, Scatterbrain. To celebrate, we count down 10 of their top songsA singular band, the Chills are difficult to stylistically define because their diverse sound traverses lush psychedelia, whimsy and gl…
This heartfelt documentary focuses on free-ranging dogs and the people on the fringes of Indian society who care for themThe street dogs that feature in this lyrically-shot documentary aren’t strays, exactly; they are the indigenous, free-ranging “pye …
Vladislav Ivanov says he regretted his decision to join Produce Camp 2021 but fans refused to vote him outThe reality TV ordeal of a Russian who joined a Chinese boy band show by accident – and made it to the final despite urging fans to vote him off –…
Thousands of Nepalese gathered to celebrate the Bisket Jatra festival in the town of Thimi, despite a government request for gatherings not to exceed 25 people. As part of the celebrations, coloured powder is spread to welcome the arrival of spring. Bi…
The Kendal family of actors star in a story inspired by their travels around India, whose booming film industry upstages their theatrical troupeThe stage on screen: more films about theatreThe actor Geoffrey Bragg was born in 1909 in the Lake District …