Films from the Global
South (such as that of Latin America, Asia and Africa) seldom receive the kind
of acceptance the Anglo-American English movies get across the world. The international
film festivals may be an exception where the ‘best’ from such countries...
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The deep state in Pakistan is no more a mere conglomerate of civil bureaucracy, army, intelligence, and/or other administrative agencies. The ‘state within the state’ has also its predictable partners in religious constituencies across the country. There is a...
“Theyyam as a folk genre and performance is a creative and ritual invocation of the people who had been killed and silenced by the hegemonic structures of social power,” according to Dr. Rajesh Komath, a faculty in Social...
First it was the finance secretary who said that if the government borrowed less then more savings would be available for the private sector to borrow. Then it was the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India who...
While conducting an intellectual inquiry into the visual premises of films, the four crucial questions that need to be addressed and answered are,
Who is making the film? (politics of writer/director)
Why is the film made? (politics of the narrative)
Where is...
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, one of the captivating figures of modern India, has a number of facets to his complex personality. His long career as teacher of philosophy at Madras Presidency College, University of Mysore, University of Calcutta, University of Oxford,...
2 October 2019 is observed as the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. This year is extraordinary as the world is celebrating 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi. Indian masses respect him by calling Rashtrapitatha, after leading the Indian masses in the...
My childhood memories of a broken Buddha sculpture spawned a bewildering array of questions—long before I came to know about the greatness of the apostle of Ahimsa. We were told that the sculpture, made of...
Vakkom Moulavi, a pioneer of Kerala renaissance and founder of Swadeshabhimani is being recognised for the first time in his hometown, Vakkom—in the district of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, the South Indian State—with a Memorial and Research Centre. Vakkom Moulavi Memorial...
In mid-April, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released its Diplomatic Bluebook 2023, its most important guidebook on international affairs. Japan’s foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, wrote the foreword, which begins: “The world is now at a turning point in...
