I have been familiar with the writings of Professsor Mushirul Hasan, eminent social historian, where he comes across as an intellectual and a humanitarian. He is also the same sensitive
Now that the bombing is over and Osama and Omar have evacuated themselves, Afghanistan will once again recede from our mindset. But we still do not know Afghanistan. In an
Bundelkhand is a region at the heart of South Asia, but you will not find it demarcated on the map. The evolution of history has decided that this historic region
My Migrant Soul
Bangladesh, 2000
Colour, Beta-SP/PAL, 35′
Bengali, Direction: Yasmine Kabir
Shyam Benegal is one of the major personalities of the "new cinema" in India. His father gifted him a movie camera when he was twelve, which is when
The Fish of Gods
Director: Jean Queyrat
France/Nepal
Colour, VHS/PAL, 26′, English, 2000
Sikkim: A Traveller's Guide
by Sujoy Das and Arundhati Ray
Permanent black, New Delhi, Pp. 159.
ISBN 81 7824 008 4
Pure Chutney
Trinidad and Tobago, 1998
Colour. Beta-SP/PAL 42
English, Direction Sanjeev Chatterjee; script
The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking through Theatre in an Age of Globalisation
by Rustom Bharucha
New Delhi: OUP, 2001, pp. xiv+243, hardcover, Rs 545
There are many ideas
A short story
For years, I have wanted to write this episode from my childhood, as the growing years have finally dispelled whatever mystery shrouded it; a mystery, which as
There are those who have learnt to 'filter', and have emerged with a wardrobe which is Western in thought but desi at heart.
For quite some time now,
