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Amit Chaudhuri

Film | 2013-08-02 00:00:00

It wasn’t until I was a graduate student, in Oxford, in the late 1980s, that I began to discover Hindi cinema. The word “Bollywood” existed then, but it wasn’t a catch-all term to describe a cinematic tradition of great, contradictory variety, and one...

Mumbai, the troubled city I love

Opinion | 2008-12-07 06:00:00

A couple of days ago, after a performance in London, an old schoolfriend who had come to my concert offered to drop me at the station. He had come...