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Habicht’s images of stars such as the Rolling Stones and Jane Birkin to the everyday defined the spirit of an eraIn 1960s London, photographer Frank Habicht’s work captured the spirit and energy of the era, turning his skill to celebrities as well as t…
Inspired by a true story, this feelgood Indian film is about some Bollywood superfans making their own movies with a cheeky but admirable DIY ethosHere is a thoroughly enjoyable, big-hearted movie about building a better life through showbusiness. It i…
After tickets quickly sold out, some began to reappear on unauthorised third-party websites for more than £750Indian police have opened an investigation after touts bought up tickets for Coldplay’s upcoming Mumbai shows and put them back on sale for mo…
Shot over 10 years, Sheena Sumaria’s documentary follows an Indian fishing village as it takes on global financial giants to protect its biodiversity and the residents’ livelihoodsA quiet coastal village in India’s Gulf of Kutch is the site of an ancie…
Preeti Panigrahi is excellent as Mira, a prefect dealing with first love and, unusually, sex, as she navigates the patriarchy in 90s north India ‘Some teachers thought a girl wasn’t up to it,” says a veteran female teacher with a weary roll of the eye….
The flow of knowledge to Europe on maths, astronomy and much more has gone unacknowledged by historians. In AD628, an Indian sage living on a mountain in Rajasthan made one of the world’s most important mathematical discoveries. The great mathematicia…
Documentary on the 2020-21 protests in India over three farm acts is interesting in patches, but doesn’t go anywhere unexpectedYou might suspect that documentaries like this – quietly didactic, discreetly partisan, yet dry enough to seem faintly journa…
This forest of intricately decorated statues was begun in secret by a man who never considered himself an artist but built what became India’s most visited tourist site after the Taj Mahal, the Rock Garden of ChandigarhA forest of curious cement statue…
A Thousand Thorns is a project by photographer Deepti Asthana documenting women’s changing aspirations in rural India through the story of two young female forest guards in Rajasthan’s Thar desert. Theirs is a scenario playing out in millions of homes …
From Pakistan to Iran, a new generation is learning traditional crafts and taking their knowledge back homeThe small city of Nasarpur in Pakistan has a centuries-old reputation for its ceramics. That’s why, when the ceramic worker Ghulam Hyder Daudpota…
Documentary expertly follows the only woman to have climbed the mountain 10 times through spectacular scenery and a traumatic personal lifeThis portrait of title subject Lhakpa Sherpa, the only woman to have summited Mount Everest 10 times, is so dense…
An American contestant on Race to Survive has apologised for eating a weka, a large, brown flightless bird known for its curiosityThings got a little too real on the reality TV show Race to Survive when one of the contestants killed and ate a protected…
With music now a crime in Afghanistan, Braga has become one of the few places where the practice is being preservedA stone’s throw from Portugal’s oldest cathedral and buzzing bakeries serving up pastéis de nata, the complex notes of a sitar fill the g…
Inspired by her own family, Singaporean artist Niceaunties puts aunties at the heart of the world she conjures upThere are high-rise living quarters built from stacks of Tupperware, spas where you can immerse yourself in a giant bowl of ramen and an al…
Goze – women who earned a living as musicians despite sight impairments – are all but forgotten in Japan but Rieko Hirosawa has learned their songsRieko Hirosawa sits on a stone bench outside her home, tunes her instrument and takes a deep breath. She …