The word or expression of the year 2020 will probably turn out to be ‘self-isolate’. But what we are to read if we have to be confined to our homes on account of the Covid-19 pandemic was discusse...

Those who have had nightmares after watching Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 psychological thriller, Psycho — especially the shower scene in which secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is repeatedly stabbe...

Heinrich Zimmer, extolling the achievements of Gandhara artists in deviating from Hellenistic ideals and transforming the Buddha image into “the personification of a pure essence”, wrote in The Ar...

When can art claim to be truly public? Does the path to Swachh Bharat — a favourite refrain of the prime minister — lie through Bhubaneswar? These two questions would appear to be unrelated on a c...