ENTERTAINMENT
Shaji Karun: An architect of stillness
He was arguably India’s best cinematographer after Subrata Mitra, who managed the camera for Satyajit Ray. Shaji’s camera was like a conscious, sentient — almost metaphysical — being bringing you up close and personal with the human spirit where the humdrum did not intrude and where silence spoke eloquently and powerfully about humanity and its small triumphs and its big frailties
BUSINESS
The significance of Shyam Benegal in the making of India
LIFESTYLE
The Irish lodestar
Edna O’Brien, who passed away at 93 on July 27, was a writer driven by an uncompromising honesty and who lived and wrote on her terms
TRENDS
2022: Past looks at present
Summing up a year through flash fiction filled with historical characters.
TRENDS
Jean-Luc Godard: The master who wowed audiences 24 frames a second
In India, the influence of Godard, the giant of French New Wave, has been immense. All the bubbliness and mechanised jerkiness of modern and shallow Bollywood owes a huge debt to him
TRENDS
50 years on, 'Accidental Napalm' still fills us with horror
The world will keep getting grisly photos such as Nick Ut's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Napalm Girl', the defining image of the Vietnam War, if America refuses to rein in its Rambos.
POLITICS
Uttarakhand elections: What the state needs, beyond campaign trails and election promises
Creative has to replace the commonplace; innovation has to shut away sloth; enervation has to give way to energy; dejection to determination; melancholy to magic; and vapidity to vivacity.
TRENDS
Tribute: John le Carré books and characters lofted events above genre of spy thrillers
Many fraught pieces of history were brought tantalisingly alive by John le Carré, who passed away on Monday, with a silver- tongued penmanship that detailed every restrained hope and every sinister fear of a changing world.
