JAFAR PANAHI: STRUCTURE, AUSTERITY & SOCIAL CRITICISM

Sharad Raj discusses the cinema of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, his consummate understanding and command over time and spac...

Childhood, Holocaust and the Cinema of Louis Malle

Louis Malle’s semi-autobiographical 1987 film ‘Au revoir les enfants’ or ‘Goodbye, Children’ belongs to this rare...

Dream Interrupted

Film historian Dhruv Somani laments the fact that Muzaffar Ali’s Zooni (1989), with Dimple Kapadia in the title role, co...

WOMEN OF STEEL

Some among us could be talking about the conditions of prisons in the country, and the various challenges faced by inmates, but only a handful ...

No Country For Minorities

Humra Quraishi points out the double standards adopted by the state when dealing with minorities in India.

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Here I was born…

Humra Quraishi shares facts about the displacements of one particular minority community of India in the name of development.<...

Real Facts, Real Figures

Humra Quraishi shares the  latest officially released figures related to rape and crime against women in the country.

Curious Case of Libaas

Film historian Dhruv Somani writes on the 1982 film of Gulzar, Libaas, with an outstanding music score by R.D.Burman, which ha...

A  ROTI PLEASE!

One of the foremost signs of failing governance is that many more poor people are dying of hunger and malnutrition, writes Humra Qurais...