Just as the International Fortnight to protest Violence Against Women winds up this year, Qafe goes back to its historical moorings. By Paramita Banerjee. That time of the year has just ended – International Fortnight to protest Violence against Women:
About the column: This series presents short articles and photo-essays on the industrial aspects of cinema produced from Bombay aka Bollywood. Stories of the making of Bollywood, stars, publicity mechanisms, fan cultures, gossips, costumes, music usage, playback systems, singers, composers, as
The jingle announcing the morning news emanated from the radio in the teashop. Though the shop was at the entrance of the colony, the owner kept the volume high enough to pierce through the walls of all houses in the
Where did Ilina go? From the cloistered spaces of amateur emancipations She walked with a man wearing a strange coat. Some sundry roles were played As the city swirled in urban smoke Oozing from their shared cigarettes. Pre-fornication conversation
“But what reality was ever made by realists?” True. And thus begins my admiration for Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Booker Prize winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. It’s a novel you want to take to bed with yourself
Like in a gushing creek, that sways into trembling the tender florets on the shore. Hypnotising the mind with the eyes, into a dream with a lore. Ah! that reeling which lurches the feet, into a wobble that admonishes summer’s yore.
Colombia seems to have become a symbol of the dogged struggle against inequality that we identify with communist ideals. In the midst of chaotic state of affairs, hope takes a new form through the peace talks held between the different
The coming back of the Amerindians,the struggle for liberation in Latin America and the way in which human action influences the geological balance of the world has transformed the definitions of capital, property and state. Oscar Guardiola-Rivera comes up with
We live in the Anthropocene world where human activity manipulates or even dictates nature. The question then arises, how much of Earth and its resources do we own? Koli Mitra explores the dialectic between public and private property, the role
In a world that is steadily changing, Deepa Bhasthi explores the ideas of travel and how it changes the perceptions that eventually led to revolutions. How it happened during the times of Che Guevara, and how it happens today …