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Taboo Love and the Sensibility of Agnès Varda
Her cinema played with subversive and controversial subjects even as she kept up her engagement with the political environment of her times intact, writes Vandana Kumar My fi...
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My first trip on Air-India
With Air-India in the news, Farrukh Dhondy reminisces upon his first trip on the Maharajah’s airline. I left India for the first time when I was twenty years old,...
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Love me if you can: Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
“Love me if you can”, says the last will and testament of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, writes Juhi Saklani The desire is couched as a friendly suggestion and is not ...
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Signs of the time: What Gandhi didn’t want
Humra Quraishi looks at the indiscriminate violence taking place around the country ironically on Gandhi Jayanti, the birth anniversary of the Mahatma whose belief in seculari...
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Signs of the time: The trauma generation
Humra Quraishi looks into reports, that are available, to find out about the fears and anxieties of the present youth and children in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. I&...
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Widening the Definition of Literature with Bob Dylan
The word ‘literature’ in a dictionary covers many genres of achievement and is the generic name for many sins, writes Farrukh Dhondy. Nevertheless it evokes the co...
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Hrid Majhare: The Bard’s Official ‘Debut’ in Bengali Cinema
In the series on landmark Bengali films post 2000, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at Ranjan Ghosh’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello, with Macbeth and Julius Caes...
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Times of Indian Politics
Farrukh Dhondy makes an attempt to understand Indian Politics in context to the self-imploding ideology of Hindutva In the last decade of the last century Britain’s Lab...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
In Agnès Varda’s 1962 film Cléo from 5 to 7 (French title Cléo de 5 à 7), a vain pop singer Cléo (Corinne Marchand) has two hours...
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The Hazards of Adaptation: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ranjan Das focuses on the challenges that confront filmmakers when adapting vast and expansive authored works, by placing Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in p...
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