Each home in Delhi’s Madrasi Camp sports a drishti bommai (a black mask with exaggerated features such as bulging eyes and red lips). Invariably, at the entryway to each single-room home are two ...

In chasing an easy route to success and to cover up for its own creative bankrup­tcy, Bollywood earlier resorted to lifting unofficially from DVDs of foreign films, be it Oldboy or The Italian Job.

Aravind Subramanian wants an answer to a question that’s been nagging him. If North Indian stand-up comics performing in Chennai and Bengaluru can pepper their show with the choicest of Hindi abuses ...

As dawn broke on Sunday, bulldozers rumbled into Madrasi Camp in south Delhi’s Jangpura under the watchful eyes of a police contingent and started tearing down hundreds of houses in the decades-old ...