Top 10 Movies Of 2014 That You Just Can’t Miss!
By Zehra Kazmi: 2014 was an important year for cinema. Hollywood churned out some films that left us gasping for breath and searching for words. Here in India, though, it was a different story....
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PK Is Not An Extraordinary Film, But Here’s Why You Can’t Afford To Miss It...
By Soumya Raj: 2014 was a good, an almost daring year for films. Starting off with Highway, Dedh Ishqiya, and Ankhon Dekhi to Sulemani Keeda, Queen, Haider and the quite rib-tickling Filmistaan. I’m...
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“Sulemani Keeda”- The Refreshing Pain In My Rear
By Rohan Seth: In the time of corporate bonded labour, targets, presentations, appraisals, Dabangs, Singhams, Happy New Years, love jihad, VHP and RSS feeds – I discovered the perfect albeit transient...
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A Stinking State Of Affairs: Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Ugly’ Will Leave You Shattered
By Rohan Seth: Had Niccolò Machiavelli been alive today, he would have felt vindicated after watching Ugly. ‘Men are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers’ – Anurag Kashyap deserves to be anointed...
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‘The Interview’ Fails To Live Up To The Hype, But You Should Still Watch It
By Soumya Raj: North Korea called US President Obama a monkey. They were so scared of this movie that they compared the president of one of the most influential nations to a backward primate. Amidst...
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The Sex Imbalance That’s Not Really A Matter Of ‘Choice’
By Kirrat Sachdeva: Curiosity gets the best of us and so does all the subsequent guesswork! While the internet and your family can give you lists of signs and symptoms to ponder over whether you are...
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“If It Bleeds, It Leads”: Feeding Our Hunger For Blood And Gore – The...
By Zehra Kazmi: Nightcrawler is a rare film, it’s bone-chilling yet pulsating. The film leaves you in shock, your heart still thumping long after the credits have started rolling. Jake Gyllenhaal plays...
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A Letter To Zindagi Channel, From A Disgruntled Fan
By Abhismita Sen: Dear Zee Entertainment Enterprises, When the Zindagi channel was launched, I was not very enthusiastic. I had enough of indigenous entertainment which offered nothing beyond saas-bahu...
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Nude, Sexual Or Religious: The Illogical Censorship That Happens Whenever Art...
By Maria Lopez: On the 5th of December 2014 an exhibition titled W.A.R (Women Art Resistance) opened at the American Center to a packed auditorium. The show was curated by Myna Mukherjee, the director...
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‘It Will All Make Sense When We Grow Up’– Life, By Calvin And Hobbes
By Moumita Ghosh: Calvin and Hobbes has been a high point of my Sunday newspaper reading ritual for as long as I can remember. There is laughter galore every time I come across Calvin’s mild crush on...
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The Million Dollar Babies: How ‘The Interview’ And ‘PK’ Are Actually Brothers...
By Devang Pathak: This is not an easy country for creative freedom. I don’t need to state facts to make my case. We are indoctrinated in the art of what not to do from an early age rather than the...
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Je Suis Charlie. I am Charlie. And I Am A Practicing Muslim.
By Kainat Sarfaraz: Je Suis Charlie. I am Charlie. The internet is exploding with these words. People across various ages, races and religions are condemning Wednesday’s attack on the Paris office of...
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Watching PK, And A Memory Of How Religious Rigidity Can Go To Uncanny Extremes
By Sanghamitra Aich: I have some distinct memories of a family I once knew. They used to follow a certain guru who lived in Rajasthan. This guru gave strict instructions to all his followers against...
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In Pictures: JNU Is Celebrating Free Love By ‘Queering’ The Campus
By Somrita Urni Ganguly: The Supreme Court verdict of December 11th, 2013 set aside the landmark Delhi High Court ruling which said that Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, that criminalizes...
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For US, The Film ‘Selma’ Comes At The Right Moment. For India, It Raises A...
By Devang Pathak: A defining scene in Selma has Dr. Martin Luther King, played brilliantly by actor David Oyelowo, say “I would rather that people be upset and hate me than be bleeding or dead.” Can...
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On The Detective’s Trail: YKA Catches Hold Of The Original Byomkesh Bakshi –...
This post is a part of Youth Ki Awaaz’s Crime Writers Festival coverage: By Kanika Katyal: Think crime fiction. Think Bengal. Think Detective. And an image of Byomkesh Bakshi immediately conjures up in...
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‘The Colonel Who Would Not Repent': A Chronicle Of The Blood Soaked History...
By Akhil Kumar: The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War And Its Unquiet Legacy Salil Tripathi Aleph Book Company 382 Pages The 2013 Shahbag protests renewed global interest in the bloody...
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“It’s Bloody And Beautiful”: Author Jerry Pinto On Crime Fiction, And More
This post is a part of Youth Ki Awaaz’s coverage of the Crime Writers Festival: By Kanika Katyal: Jerry Pinto lives in a city. This is a pity. Because cities ain’t pretty. – Jerry Pinto Back in 2011,...
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The Man Who Interviewed Dawood Ibrahim Talks About The Dark Underbelly Of The...
This post is a part of Youth Ki Awaaz’s coverage of the Crime Writers Festival: By Krishangi Singh: What do you do when the name of the man you’re about to interview is on one on the ‘Most Wanted’...
View Article‘Messenger Of God’ has Kicked Up A Storm, And Raised Some Uncomfortable...
By Bala Sai: Perhaps we are a fragile country, an inchoate, albeit delicate assembly of ideals and beliefs that could collapse at the slightest disturbance. Perhaps we are a country simmering with...
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