70 years after his death, member of the Muslim and Urdu poetry community still keep fond memories of the great leader. By Hasrat Mohani During an annual session of the Congress Party in 1921, two men moved a resolution calling […]
Hero Rajashekhar’s daughter Shivani Rajashekhar was supposed to make her debut long back but two of her films were shelved due to some internal issues. Meanwhile, it’s never too late as the actress is grabbing some interesting offers in both […]
Manoranjan Byapari, one of the first-time MLAs in the new West Bengal assembly, has led an incredible life. When he was born into a Dalit Namasudra family in erstwhile East Pakistan in 1950 or 1951 — he is not sure […]
CHENNAI: In the newly released and much talked about Netflix anthology ‘Ajeeb Daastaans’, director Neeraj Ghaywan’s short film ‘Geeli Pucchi’ shines the light back on an important intersectionality that finds itself disregarded in popular narratives of activism – caste and […]
It did not seem possible that Malayalam cinema could throw up a gem to rival The Great Indian Kitchen this year, but it already has – Nayattu is it Anna MM Vetticad CAST : Joju George,Nimisha Sajayan,Kunchacko Boban,Yama Gilgamesh,Jaffer Idukki,Anil […]
The first part of Bengali writer Manoranjan Byapari’s Chandal Jibon trilogy is a saga of displacement and despair By: Faizal Khan When Jibon wrote the first letter of the alphabet in the Bengali language by dragging the bamboo-stem pen dipped […]
Vira Sathidar found prominence only in 2014 with the National Award-winning film ‘Court’. But he leaves behind a rich legacy for the young generation of rights activists. PRASHANT INGOLE India is losing many important social revolutionaries to the devastating Covid-19 […]
Konkona Sen Sharma talks about the overwhelming response to ‘Geeli Pucchi’, one of the four stories featured in Netflix’s ‘Ajeeb Daastaans’ which talks about Dalit rights and the LGBTQ community. Lachmi Deb Roy INTERVIEWS Konkona Sen Actor-director Konkona Sen Sharma […]
Indian cinema has generally taken upon itself to treat its working-class protagonists as victims, and physical labour as drudgery. This is essentially because the films take up social conflict as their subject and conflict produces victims. MK Raghavendra Indian cinema […]
Thomas Blom Hansen’s new book, ‘The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics’, argues that Hindu-Muslim antagonism, culminating in the Partition, is the violent foundation of Indian politics. Peter van der Veer Almost 20 years ago, political scientist […]
