Amrita Pritam, 100 Years And Counting
“When a man denies the power of a woman, he is denying his own subconscious.” Even since I read this quote, it has never ceased to resonate with me each time, and I find society is still unjust to...
View ArticleAsia’s Largest Content Festival: Calling Filmmakers, Writers, Storytellers,...
In a world where creation is appreciated but seldom attempted, India Film Project aims to enable upcoming creators and celebrate pro-creators and their creations across films, digital, literature, and...
View ArticleDear Ekta Kapoor, Will We Ever See The True Picture Of India On Our TV Screens?
Dear Ms. Kapoor, I understand that you are the one who can be credited with the day-and-night-heavy-saree-suit-jewellery-clad avatar of the Indian woman in daily soaps, while others have followed into...
View ArticleSolitude In The Times Of Internet
I belong to a unique time-space in the history of mankind, which is a sandwich between two—what I want to call—eras. I do not wish to devalue other eras by using this term, so I should take it in a...
View Articleबाटला हाउस: “थोड़ा निराश करती मगर कई हद तक सच्चाई दिखाती फिल्म”
मशहूर अभिनेता जॉन अब्राहम की नई मूवी बाटला हाउस एक ऐसी कथा है, जो समाज में फैली हुई विक्टिमहुड पॉलिटिक्स को सारेआम एक्सपोज़ करती है। वही इस फिल्म पर कुछ सवाल भी हैं पर इस फिल्म की अच्छी बातें भी बहुत...
View ArticleDomain Of The Devil: A Satire On Indian English Publishing
Excerpted from my novel, a free ebook “Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life” When at length, Suresh was finding his moorings at Tihar; Subba Rau was brought in to a near stampede there. Why not, the whole...
View ArticleAn Exercise In Nostalgia: Chhichhore Will Take You Back To Your College Life!
*Spoiler Alert* Chhichhore was released last Friday, September 6, one of the latest Bollywood movies to be released. I watched it with my friends, and we got a lot more than we expected! By the look of...
View ArticleChhichhore: The Disappointing Gender Politics In An Otherwise Fun Film
I confess. I walked out of Chhichhore with a smile. It was like the love child of Karan Johar’s glossy optics of college life, and Raju Hirani’s tear-jerking melodrama. Before you gasp in disbelief at...
View ArticleCelebrating Minority Narratives In The Festival Of Ideas And Resistance
The Festival of Ideas and Resistance, jointly organised by the Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) of Kerala State Committee and Campus Alive Academic Webportal will take place on 27–29th December 2019...
View Article#HindiDiwas: Basking In The Warmth Of Hindi
For those born in a metropolitan city like Mumbai, Hindi is a language that one meets in their childhood itself. Where every moholla is home to a variety of language speakers, Hindi becomes a medium...
View ArticleOnline Web Series: A breath Of Fresh Air In The Toxicity Of Bollywood
Cinema is the art of storytelling: from tears to laughter, from anger to empathy, from music to romance, from narratives to stories, from legacies to classics, from cinema to classics! Whoever said...
View Articleछिछोरे: हार से निराश होने वाले स्टूडेंट्स को ज़रूर देखनी चाहिए यह फिल्म
छिछोरे फिल्म का टाइटल मूवी पर पूरी तरह से फिट नहीं बैठता है। मूवी छिछोरापन के साथ-साथ महत्वपूर्ण संदेश भी देती है। ‘दंगल’ जैसी फिल्में बना चुके निर्देशक नितेश तिवारी ने इस बार कॉलेज लाइफ की कहानी को...
View ArticleIn The Mood For Love: To Remind You Why Love Is Love In Post-377 India
As the screen flashes “To those who have lived and loved,” it stands as a reminder of the question “why pride?” As India celebrated one year of the decriminalisation of homosexuality under Section 377...
View ArticleKings Of Horror: Tracing The Legacy Of The Ramsay Brothers
As we walk down the lane of sequels to IT and Annabelle, we put a blind eye forward to Indian horror. Ranging from monsters to blood, we have got ’em all. Kings Of Horror by Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu...
View ArticleGendered Clothing, ‘Chick-Lits’ And Other Patriarchal Pet Peeves
Why do men despise everything labeled for female usage but it’s perfectly normal or sometimes even aspirational for women to use products/services termed as male/”unisex”? And the irony is that this...
View ArticleA Glimpse Into The Yesteryears Of Indian Cinema “Starring Sharmila Tagore”
A still from “Apur Sansar”. In the opening frame of “Starring Sharmila Tagore”, we find ourselves in the narrow bylane and the dingy little room that is the world of Apu (“Apur Sansar”, 1959). Through...
View Article‘Girhein’: A Short Film That Mirrors The Realities Of Depression Perfectly
“Mujhse na poochh, main kyun udaas hoon Dard hi dard hoon, main na aawaaz hoon Mere lafzon ki khamoshi mein mujhe suno, Mehsoos karke dekho, mai ek ehsaas hoon Apne haathon se chhookar, phhir sur...
View ArticleAre Newspapers In India Betraying Readers?
On September 17th, Rajasthan Patrika published an article by the former national president of a national party and the current home minister of the country. It was not about the country or its...
View ArticleHow Good Is The Indian Muse?
Well, what does it take to be a writer and what’s the utility of writing itself? Naturally, this should be the starting point of such a debate. If writing skills alone are sufficient to make a writer...
View Article‘The Wounded Souls Of The Rann’: A Tightly-Stitched Narrative To Make Us Think
How often have we come across a landmass that happens to be as transformative (rather dramatically) as the one found in and around the Little Rann of Kachchh (LRK)? In all fairness, it happens to be...
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