Lucknow Music Diaries: Sticking to the setlist
Looking back at the ups and downs, and dangers and desperation, of the Lucknow rock scene - by Prateek Santram
Fear and Loathing – and fact and fiction – in MEHSAMPUR
Past and present, real and unreal, urban and rural, and life and death clash to present Mehsampur, Kabir Singh Chowdhary’s unforgettable film out of the Punjabi heartlands. A review by Karan Madhok
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Indian Trucker Life
Interview: Rajat Ubhaykar, author of Truck De! India, speaks about humanising India’s truck-drivers, their contribution to the Indian economy, and the excitement and dangers of life on the road - by Kamakshi Ayyar
SHE DARED: A celebration of Indian women athletes
True Stories of excellence – Jamie Alter reviews She Dared: Women in Indian Sports by Abhishek Dubey and Sanjeeb Mukherjea
All The Stage's A World
Jurish Nath writes about using theatre to shape the lives of children and young adults in Pune
Mussoorie Writers: Stephen Alter reads from THE RATABAN BETRAYAL
A short film from Mussoorie Writers, featuring Stephen Alter reading from his 2016 novel, The Rataban Betrayal
The Decade in Hindi Cinema
Presenting: The Chakkar’s Top 10 favourite Hindi films of the 2010s - by Karan Madhok and Prateek Santram
Pardesi Pahadi: Nanda Devi - A glimpse of the Himalayan Goddess
“I feel a lot of things in the mountains, but gratitude is what I feel the most.” In his first ‘Pardesi Pahadi’ column, Zachary Conrad writes about an unforgettable hike for a glimpse of the majestic Nanda Devi
Who will chowkidar the chowkidars?
Editorial: The Anti-CAA/NRC protests have opened up larger wounds of India’s discontent with its government - Karan Madhok
The Indigestible Politics and Violence of Food in India
Within a country whose religious and social divide is visibly, increasingly violent, food is just another fragment that is appropriated to oppress - writes Saachi D’Souza
A Sort of Homecoming
What it meant for 40,000+ people to watch U2 at their India debut - Anurag Tagat writes
Why Netflix's LITTLE THINGS is a perfect showcase of Indian millennial relationships
The third season of Little Things forays into deeper issues in an Indian millennial relationship - writes Nidhi Choksi Dhakan
At the Student Protests in Jantar Mantar, Dikshit Sharma turns his lens to the moments of collective solidarity—the trash collectors, the food delivery workers, the volunteers, the living community—to reveal the architecture which quietly carries history forward.