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Bhavya Arora
Savdhaan! A Notice to Indian Audiences and Families
25 Feb 2020
At the peak of his career Khurrana has taken a plunge of sorts by choosing to portray the struggles of a not-so-elite queer man.
Rajinder Azad
Three Poems By Kamal Dev Pall
23 Feb 2020
That religion Is impartial to those who are discriminated Is less injurious than intoxicants Is more important than cattle food.
PTI
3 Dead, 9 Injured as Crane Crashes on Sets of Kamal Haasan's Film
20 Feb 2020
Those dead were assistant director Krishna, art assistant Chandran and Madhu, a production assistant, Lyca Productions said in a statement in Chennai.
Nitasha Kaul
One Afternoon in Kashmir
20 Feb 2020
Intersecting the paths of Fayaz, the son of a former militant, his nephew Imran, and Shireen, the granddaughter of a spy, Nitasha Kaul, in her novel Future Tense, traces the competing trajectories of…
Vijay Prashad
Standing Up for Left Literature—In India, It Can Cost You Your Life
19 Feb 2020
Red Books Day is about standing up to fascism and standing up for our own intellectual development.
Pankhuri Zaheer
Festival Diary: What Gandhi Would Have Told Asifa
18 Feb 2020
Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2020 gets real with plays themed on mob-lynching, gender, caste and some street theatre.
Yogesh Maitreya
The Casteless Collective: Musicalising Anti-Caste Conscience
18 Feb 2020
A cursory glance at these videos testifies to this: these new songs and albums share with Bollywood a slick production style, a totally apolitical approach, lethargically romantic lyrics and also…
Yogesh Maitreya
The Casteless Collective: Musicalising Anti-Caste Conscience
16 Feb 2020
In the name of Bollywood songs and indie-pop, the dalit-bahujan listeners have been fed with ideas and tastes of the anti-dalit/bahujan imagination of brahmanism.
Medha Singh
To Translate is To Love Again: Sayed Haider Raza’s Love Letters
13 Feb 2020
Raza expresses his range of feelings wholeheartedly in his letters, clearly intentioned, giving one a sense of confidence about the work that they were doing.
Pankhuri Zaheer
Festival Diary: An Ongoing Drama Linking Theatre to Life
11 Feb 2020
Ninety plays are being staged in the capital’s Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2020. Read about this week’s personal, political, and flights of fancy and next week’s line-up.