To me, Janaki Amma was the voice that carried me through exams, bus rides, heartbreaks, and joy
What arrives in Salakhain is therefore not quite the novel but its afterlife: a familiar arrangement of misfortune and moral arithmetic portable enough to cross languages, industries, and continents.
By Manahil Tahira ·
In Sirai, the Tamil song becomes the precise space where the nation’s carceral suspicion is answered — not with polemic argument, but with radical intimacy
By Swarnavel Eswaran ·
When we sat down with Kanu Behl on the day Agra opened in Indian theatres, it felt like one of those moments that might precipitate something bigger. Fortunately for Indian independent cinema, something bigger has precipitated.
By Abhinav Jain ·
When a film star becomes too powerful to be vulnerable, does cinema itself suffer? A critical look at Vijay and the star system.
By Niveditha K Prasad ·
On Growing Up with Lightning McQueen
By Krishna Natesan ·
SR Praveen about his book, Ticket to Kerala, film reviewing, and more.
By Niveditha K Prasad ·
The piece show how spring has been visualised as a narrative tool to show different stages of love–from yearning to the culmination of love
By Eshna Benegal ·
Running away from home and homecoming in Ritwik Ghatak’s Bari Theke Paliye (1959) are metaphors for the cataclysm of Partition
By Uttaran Das Gupta ·
There is no real debate on hip-hop’s place within the general culture. Most think of hip-hop as being a low-brow art form and even many hip-hop fans do not attempt to defend hip-hop’s cultural status. Yet, all these analyses…
By Anthony David Vernon ·
How do you see the world if you don’t move through it? Perhaps, you see it as it moves while you remain still.
By Atreyee Majumder ·
If the spectator of Chechmeh could live the transcendental content of the film, the film itself could give the spectator the poetic depth that he/she wishes to see.
By Ramin Jahanbegloo ·
By taking the humanity out of the monsters and backdrops of the TV shows and presenting audiences with increasingly computer generated landscapes and monsters, viewers become distracted by spectacle and are less able to relate their…
