In Cautious Praise of Filmic Fiascoes
When it comes to bad films, there has to be a distinction between a ‘failure’ and…
Pop Goes the Culture
Pakistan, Bollywood Style
Three films about by Indians about Pakistan. (1) Nuanced, amusing… but ultimately self serving. (2) Earnest,…
The Sweet Smell of N,N-Diethylbenzamide
The ‘modern’ middleclass ideal of suburbia: reaping the fruits of industrialisation while insulating ourselves from its…
Kindred Spirits
A Review of Azad Essa’s No Country For the Poor By Thomas Crowley Spoiler alert! I am going…
can language save us all?
Scholars of philology, work heroically to understand long dead languages… in a way, they work to…
Looking Back, Head Spinning
Considering the rerelease of two classic, high-nostalgia films – one a cult favourite, the other an…
Would you like some Politics with your Tea?
During the Delhi elections, the incumbent Congress Party unleashed a dazzling ad blitz in celebration of…
The Grain Raj
The WTO’s Doha Development Round in Bali ended with India keeping its agricultural subsidies and enjoying…
Seeing Red
It is increasingly difficult to pin-point the specific causes of various protest movements across the world, but all…
Silver Screen Satans
This month Thomas Crowley charts out Bollywood’s fascination with the don, the almost mythical Dawood Ibrahim….