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Articles by Kunal Ray

Kader Attia: “Art as a practice will always be free, but the art world is not”

Artist Kader Attia, curator of the next Kochi Muziris Biennale (Nicole Tanzini di Bella)

Updated on Jun 9, 2026 15:00 IST

SR Praveen: 'Mohanlal and Mammootty have a lot left to give to Malayalam cinema'

Author SR Praveen (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jun 2, 2026 13:12 IST

Leela Samson: “There is no prejudice that you cannot overcome”

Dancer and author Leela Samson (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Oct 24, 2025 22:48 IST

Asrani & the trap of the Bollywood stereotype

On TV shows and public events, Asrani was constantly asked to mouth the Sholay dialogue, sometimes to his irritation, which he didn’t hide (PTI)

Updated on Oct 24, 2025 15:09 IST

Homebound and the duty audiences owe to good cinema

When films like Homebound also perform well at the box office, it emboldens producers to attempt new stories and storytelling in cinema, to introduce new faces and a new aesthetic on screen. (AFP)

Updated on Oct 3, 2025 15:22 IST

Review: Viewfinder – A Memoir by Amol Palekar

Smita Patil and Amol Palekar in Tarang (1984). (Film still/HT Photo)

Updated on Jun 26, 2025 09:53 IST

Decolonising minds, reimagining literature

Thiong’o did many radical things as a writer but the most important is his decision to quit writing in English around 1977 and switch to writing in his mother tongue, Gikuyu (Wikipedia)

Updated on May 31, 2025 12:55 IST

Bena Sareen: “Every book is a new challenge”

Bena Sareen (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 01:12 IST

The cinema ecosystem Shyam Benegal created

Mumbai: In this Friday, June 14, 2024 file image, filmmaker Shyam Benegal during the release of a special postal cover to mark Film Heritage Foundation's 10th anniversary, in Mumbai. Benegal passed away on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024 in Mumbai. He was 90. (PTI Photo/Shashank Parade) (PTI)

Updated on Dec 25, 2024 14:53 IST

V Geetha: “India is a land of many times”

V Geetha (Courtsesy the subject)

Updated on Nov 1, 2024 16:23 IST

Behind that fading Hindi movie magic

Jaipur: Actors Rajkumar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor address a press conference of film 'Stree -2', in Jaipur, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (PTI Photo) (PTI)

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 14:50 IST

Appadurai Muttulingam – “You can call me a world citizen”

Author Appadurai Muttulingam (Courtesy the author)

Updated on Sep 6, 2024 14:28 IST

To Lunuganga – architecture as autobiography

Located on the banks of the Dedduwa lake, Lunuganga turned 75 last year. (© Geoffrey Bawa and Lunuganga Trusts)

Updated on Jun 27, 2024 15:18 IST

Review: Maria Just Maria by Sandhya Mary

A seemingly “normal” girl cycling down a street in Kochi, Kerala. (Matthew Williams-Ellis/Universal via Getty Images)

Updated on May 17, 2024 23:44 IST

When space shrinks for writing on the arts

TM Krishna singing at Kala Mandapam, Qaisarbagh, Lucknow. (Courtesy Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival)

Updated on Apr 5, 2024 18:17 IST

Charlotte Ager – “Self-doubt can completely freeze you up”

Illustrator Charlotte Ager (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Mar 29, 2024 13:46 IST

Musician who deeply thought about her art

Born on September 13, 1932 in Pune, Prabha Atre trained in the “guru-shishya” tradition, known as the “Gurukul” system, by the two stalwarts of the Kirana Gharana — the late Pandit Sureshbabu Mane and his sister Padmabhushan Hirabai Badodekar. (HT FILE)

Updated on Jan 15, 2024 06:57 IST

AJ Thomas – “If the narrative element is strong, the story will hold”

AJ Thomas, editor and translator, The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Dec 16, 2023 24:20 IST

Actor, superstar, change: The case of Mammootty

Kaathal The Core: Jyothika and Mammootty's film

Updated on Dec 15, 2023 16:45 IST

Ahalya Matthan - “It allows you to come close to precious historical textiles”

Ahalya Matthan of The Registry of Sarees that has published The Saree in Nine Stories. (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Aug 25, 2023 15:07 IST

Interview: Daniel Hahn, translator - “Awards are a statement of what we value”

Daniel Hahn photographed at the Story Museum in Oxford, UK. (John Lawrence)

Updated on May 30, 2023 04:26 IST

Ways of seeing: Atul Dodiya and the cinema

Uma, 2020-2022; (Sharmila Tagore as Uma in Anupama, 1966; Director Hrishikesh Mukherjee) (From the show Dr Banerjee in Dr Kulkarni’s Nursing Home & Other Paintings 2020-2022 by Atul Dodiya)

Updated on Feb 16, 2023 04:00 IST

HT reviewer Kunal Ray picks his favourite read of 2022

Becoming the song: On Teejan Bai, an exponent of Pandavani, a folk music form involving the narration of tales from the Mahabharata. (HT Team)

Updated on Dec 23, 2022 11:05 IST

Interview: Ramu Katakam, author, Spaces in Time – A Life in Architecture - “I yearn for a return to basics”

Architect and design thinker Ramu Katakam (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Dec 2, 2022 10:58 IST

Interview: Jayasree Kalathil, translator - “Read the text for what it is”

Translator Jayasree Kalathil (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Nov 18, 2022 16:14 IST

Review: Valli by Sheela Tomy

On the road in the Western Ghats. (HT Photo)

Updated on Nov 4, 2022 20:25 IST

Review: Adam by S Hareesh

Kerala, where the magical and the real constantly intersect. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 3, 2022 19:39 IST

Review: The Blue Book - A Writer’s Journal by Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar’s paintings and sketches speak eloquently. (From The Blue Book - A Writer’s Journal)

Updated on Mar 25, 2022 11:59 IST

Review: Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures byRochona Majumdar

A still from Meghe Dhaka Tara by Ritwik Ghatak. (HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 4, 2022 17:35 IST

Rebel without a pause: A Wknd interview with Tamil writer Ambai

(Photo: Indian Express Archive / Amit Chakravarty)

Updated on Jan 8, 2022 14:20 IST

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