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...
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...
Tunisian film world is witnessing a surge in production with a variety of themes, which were not usually allowed for quite a long, triggering what is called ‘a post-revolution cinema revival.’ According to producer Habib Attia, “Since 2011, one...
