Kashmir is on boil, again. Protests, curfew, stone pelting, killings, pellet guns are back. After 18 days, a few-hour relaxation in curfew was given in some parts of the Srinagar city on July 26 but was re-imposed after people hit
‘Half of my high school classmates are getting married and having kids and the other half are out chasing Pokémon. What a time to be alive.’ Amidst the onrush of articles in leading dailies and memes making the social
Cinema from the North East foregrounds discursive gaps between lived Indigenous practices and non-Indigenous reception of the same, as well as directs our attention to the growth and development of new ways of understanding the world from the
In the first few days after I came to London, postcards saying Britain is not an island were still hanging around, here and there. It was a blue and red drawing, more like a child’s scrawl. It wasn’t everywhere, like
Sometimes censorship is a collective effort. It is not always imposed top-down by an all-powerful State; it can also be the result of a concerted push by concerned citizens. And even where Indian culture is concerned, censorship is not
Some days the gods feel like philosophers, they grow on the city and its surroundings a strong wind. So, coming from the abandoned cemetery on the outskirts of this venerable city, desert sand mixed with fine dust of bleached
Censorship: the practice of silencing/ obliterating something because it is considered inappropriate. It is practiced variously: adult censorship seeks to determine what is appropriate for young people; social censorship determines what is acceptable in which social situation; governments determine what
The glorified attic was bursting with people. Some sat huddled together on the floor. A lucky few occupied coveted wooden chairs, as the fidgety rest jostled for space. Outside, people were queuing up for the next screening in about three hours.
The study of Bollywood has been around questions of spectatorship, the changing ideas of morality and censorship and studies in sexuality. This article is no different but it takes up a trilogy which sort of bridges two decades of film
Nothing divides the critics like a Salman Khan film. This year’s biggest film, about an underachieving Jat (Khan) and his love for Aarfa (Anushka Sharma), wrestling and himself (in precisely that order) continues to draw crowds. It also continues to