RETROSCOPE: THIRTY YEARS AFTER...TIME FLIES

  Khalid Mohamed revisits Bandit Queen (1994), Shekhar Kapur’s film on the dacoit leader Phoo...

POLITICS: PEACE DEMANDS MORE THAN PROGRESS

Despite global advancement and innovation, persistent political power struggles and inequality continue to fuel violence and fear. The Pahalgam...

THOUGHT FACTORY: THE DEATH OF THE STORYTELLER

As censorship tightens and expression is choked, storytellers face an existential crisis. With creativity shackled by morality and control, is ...

THE COURAGE AND CONVICTION OF SAIF HYDER HASAN

After seeing the film YES PAPA, story of a victim of child sexual abuse at the hands of her father, Vinta Nanda has a conversa...

YOUR SILENCE IS NO ANSWER: POWERFUL VOICES SPEAK

Can filmmakers, journalists and artists be apolitical? Vinta Nanda talks to Joy Sengupta, Bishwadeep Dipak Chatterji, Urmi Juv...

When Disaster Strikes

Film historian Dhruv Somani re-visits Yash Chopra’s Kaala Patthar (1979), based on the true-life Chasnala coal-mining tr...

MY RK STORY

Once, Raj Kapoor rescued a mugged journalist from being...

When stories divide…

Humra Quraishi expresses her apprehensions about the divisive politics being played today and what is means for the India...

Banned it

Film historian Dhruv Somani recalls 11 controversial films, which ran into trouble with the Indian film censors.

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