What’s taking their place?
A few short verses for where prose stops dead… “Drink wine and look at the…
2014
Anamika: That Which Is Nameless
Does artistic expression actually grow in response to attempts at stifling it? Deepa Bhasthi comments on…
Pappu Sain and The Drumbeat of Heaven
A bhang drinking, hashish smoking, dhol playing sufi can teach us a lot about resisting the…
Pakistan, Bollywood Style
Three films about by Indians about Pakistan. (1) Nuanced, amusing… but ultimately self serving. (2) Earnest,…
A Marriage of ‘Foes’
The Indo-Pak partition for some of them is gun fires, bomb-making classes, smiling buddhas, hotlines and…
Pakistan: Snapshots from the Border
Looking at Pakistan from her childhood home in Kashmir, Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal collapses the distance… and…
Places in my mind
There are places in my mind where I have never been. When I write I often…
No standing in these places, walk on
Roberto Rosselini’s Germany Year Zero (1948) is set in post war Germany in depression. A classic…
ONE WORLD. ONE ANTHEM.
Every four years, around the time of the greatest show on this planet, football songs waft…
मोदी सरकार, आरएसएस और मीडिया माफिया
मोदी सरकार बन गई। जमीन-आसमान, सर्वत्र जिसका भारी शोर था, अब वह प्रत्यक्ष आ धमकी। लोग…