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Ektara Collective, Mukulika R
Ektara Collective: Building Resistance, One Film a Time
11 Dec 2020
For a long time, cinema was controlled by certain classes and castes that shaped mainstream narrative and aesthetics.
Newsclick Team
Sedition Cases Withdrawn, Communal Tension in Bihar and More
10 Oct 2019
In this episode of Daily Round-up, we talk about the withdrawal of sedition cases filed on 49 artists, the rise of communal tension in Bihar, and other issues.
Indian Cultural Forum
Visiting the Mahabharata in 19 Voices
05 Jul 2019
"There is a problem with the single voice, especially in the epic. What is a mainstream narrative? What is a majoritarian narrative? The bigger the epic, the more panoply of characters, the more the…
K. Satchidanandan
The Artist as Activist
07 Jul 2016
Theodore Adorno’s famous statement “Poetry is impossible after Auschwitz” beautifully sums up the inevitable impact of politics on art. The statement was certainly not literal.
ICF & Newsclick Joint Production
Creativity and Censorship: The Insider versus the Outsider
16 Jan 2016
ICF covered a special session on creativity and censorship held in the recently concluded ILF Samanvay in Delhi. AR Venkatachalapathy hosted speakers TM Krishna, carnatic vocalist, Kannan Sundaram of…
Newsclick & ICF Production
Book Launch of Pigeons on the Dome: Stories on Communalism
15 Dec 2015
The Indian Writers’ Forum and NewsClick were at the launch of Pigeons on the Dome: Stories on Communalism, edited by Rakshanda Jalil. Jalil, the lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar, and the CEO of Prasar…
Courtesy: ICF
Book Extract: from ‘Hindutva or Hind Swaraj?’
27 Nov 2015
In this last work before his death in 2014, U R Ananthamurthy paints a sharp and prophetic picture of India in the time of full-blown Hindutva. The Indian Cultural Forum is proud to be the first to…
Courtesy: ICF
Statements of Filmmakers who have Returned their National Awards
06 Nov 2015
25 filmmakers and film professionals, including Saeed Mirza, Kundan Shah, Arundhati Roy, Ranjan Palit, Sanjay Kak, Pradeep Kishen returned their National Awards at the Press Club in Mumbai in protest…
Orijit Sen, Courtesy:ICF
Special Feature: Thought-free is Carefree!
04 Nov 2015
Orijit Sen, the cartoonist has been raising the question of attacks on freedom of speech through his cartoons for more than a year now. Sen’s reaction on the curbing of freedom of expression took off…
ICF, Newsclick Production
Romila Thapar on the Colonial Scholarship Behind HIndu Rastra
02 Nov 2015