The words of Jigar Muradabadi can perhaps best summarise the loss of Kaifi: "Jaan ke min jumlaye khasane maikhana mujhe / Muddaton roya karenge jaam-o-paimana mujhe".
Kaifi Azmi was
"We have the same kind of blood" & "Why dalit?"
Danida (HUGOU), MS-Nepal and Berit Madsen,2001 (PAL)
Despite their shortcomings, these two films deserve attention
India is a billion-weak nation thirsting for truly international sporting glory. Every four years, the fact that Olympic success eludes India is lamented in public fora. Karnam Malleswari's
When crises erupt, satellite television raises the pitch of Indian nationalism and gives it mass appeal. Bombay cinema hurries to catch up with ever-more fervid films, productions that have lately
The economics of Hindi cinema was turned on its head while we were not watching, and scripts, sets, locations, language, heroes and heroines are all no longer what they were.
The insidious advance of cinema as ultra-nationalist propaganda has not been flagged as a most dangerous trend, one which is bound to lead to more Indian and Southasian instability
There is a strikingly curious par adox about the relationship of the Pashtoons, otherwise Pakhtoons or Pathans, with music and the performing arts in general. In this deeply religious and
What we need are soft borders and hard drinks, suggests the actor-director from Pakistan, contemplating all the friends he has made in India, thanks to one peace initiative or another.
