For the PDF version see Gokul-GSC-2021-3Download Mantoa, an octogenarian Mosotho woman living in a remote mountain village in the Lesotho Highlands region, calmly listens to obituaries on the radio every night, hoping to die. "Death has forgotten you," the raconteur...
by Rasna Warah The 60s, 70s, and 80s are often described as the Golden Age of Indian cinema and Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu had a large number of cinemas devoted to showing films made in Bombay. East-African Asian influence on cinema...
My life is not in vain, my friend, when I sing for you.My song is not in vain, my friend, when you hum along with it. Writing on ecopoetry two decades back, the English writer and scholar Andrew Jonathan Bate...
“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...
Tribute to the South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk
“Documentaries are art forms of political memory making and a nation devoid of documentaries is like a family without any photo albums,” says Priya Thuvassery, a Delhi-based independent documentary maker and producer of widely discussed films like ‘Coral Woman.’...
When once for my fellowmenI shed a drop of tear,The hale of a thousand sunsArises in my soulWhen once for my fellowmen I expend a hearty smile,A full –blown moon of purest rayForever floods my heartBut all these days...
Moving images, over the years, played a decisive role in shaping and reshaping the public discourses on political issues as well as articulating the dominant political narrative of the present and of the times past. Often, this complex process...
In the context of continuing violence in social spaces, there is a need to explore and expand the existing methodology of social sciences, particularly of  sociology and social anthropology, in order to address the silences and gaps that constitute...
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...