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A world without women

Matrubhoomi , a powerful depiction of the systematic decimation of girls in a patriarchal society, announces the arrival of a new talent in filmmaking

A movement for music

Veereshwara Punyashrama, a unique institution of Hindustani music in Gadag in north Karnataka, uses the power of classical music to bring about econom

Exploring Apu's world

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Satyajit Ray's celluloid classic Pather Panchali, a look at The Apu Trilogy, based on Bibhuti Bhushan Bando

A school with a difference

The Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya is a residential school of music run by a family of French Canadians and caters to the musical and general education of

An exceptional musician

PANDIT PUTTARAJA KAVI GAVAI is likely to enter the Guinness Book of Records for a rather obscure reason. On his 92nd birthday on May 23, he would have

Pervez the peace-maker

Pakistani scientist Pervez Hoodbhoy's documentary on Kashmir crosses the border with a message of peace and friendship.

A missionary enterprise

The key elements of Zana Briski's Oscar-winning Born Into Brothels are questionable on points of fact, but these distortions pale into insignificance

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Not helpless victims of fate

SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY in Kolkata

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Mapping a political era

Sudhir Mishra's Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, a milestone in Indian political cinema, covers the turbulence that mark the pre- and post-Emergency days.

Simmering silences

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The children of 1984

The horrors of the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 are revisited in two recent feature films with pertinent questions about identities and memories.

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Fetters on expression

IT was Black Thursday for the feature film Black Friday. A day before the movie was to be released, on January 28, the special Terrorist and Disruptiv