A road trip often includes experiences that become unforgettable memories, which stay with us long after the trip is over. Deepa Bhasthi recounts a few such memories from a recent road trip to Tamil Nadu… My favourite photograph from that
The contrasting mass media reception of Narendra Modi’s visit to USA in the foreign press and in his homeland has sparked a discussion worth exploring. Pratiti Ganatra tries to articulate some of these differences… “All media exist to invest our
The popular reception and media construction of Modi has canonized him to be a Messianic figure often betraying the history of communalism as an unimportant anecdote. Who is the real Modi? Is there reality left in the world of images?
The BJP government succeeded a period of utter chaos (read UPA II) and ushered in an age of brutal Hindu revivalism. Amit Sengupta wonders what dark times lay ahead and what ghosts haunt us… Four kinds of striking phenomena seem
Amit Trivedi, winner of the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 2009 and arguably one of the finest Indian music directors of recent times, talks unpretentiously to Devjani Bodepudi about his love of music, his work and his accomplishments
Bacardi NH 7 – the musical fiesta is raring to go and Devjani Bodepudi excavates the metaphor that is ‘Fossils’… You are said to be one of the bands that helped to jump-start the Bangla rock music scene. At a
A couple of days ago, a business magazine picked her as one of the 25 most powerful women in India. The Director of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), one of India’s leading environmental NGOs, Sunita Narain is an award-winning activist for
Haider as a film projecting the reality of Kashmir, has coalesced multiple narratives into a simplistic choice between vengeance and peace. Deepa Bhasthi elaborates the shades of grey which often permeate into the everyday lives of Kashmiris …. Horatio: They
brightness of a day fakes like a Bollywood movie old monk in my tea at Irongmara July is on siesta only crows socialise tea pot falls on the wooden floor. does not break ten nude mothers scream on a
The critical and mainstream reception of Haider was overwhelmingly positive barring some questions on the politico-theoretical aspect of the film. Thomas Crowley interrogates the position of Bhardwaj as a filmmaker who represents a dissenting voice. Is he leftist or a