The Kantara Phenomenon - The Lede ‘Kantara’ a symptom of our times because of the culture wars it provokesSrikanth SrinivasanThe film has been embraced fiercely by conservatives while dismissed by detractors as regressive.
The Kantara Phenomenon Rishab Shetty: ‘I believe in the practice and I have portrayed it’Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
The Kantara Phenomenon Vocally local: ‘Kantara’ is new cinema with moorings in local cultureM.K. Raghavendra
The Kantara Phenomenon Bhoota Kola: Anchor for people in Dakshina Kannada and North MalabarGita Jayaraj
Voice of the earthANNIE ZAIDIA film festival in Delhi shows that environmental film-makers' focus has shifted from wildlife to dilemmas about resources, power and politics.
Video volunteersDIONNE BUNSHAThe story of Sanjay Khandare and his young team who are making films for their people, not for media moguls.
On-screen revoltGOWRI RAMNARAYANIn "Offside", Jafar Panahi makes unforgettable use of comedy to ridicule a despotic regime.
In spite of BollywoodMAITHILI RAOMarathi cinema has been producing a range of serious films notwithstanding the frivolous influence of Bollywood.
War relicS. THEODORE BASKARANBurma Rani, a lost-and-retrieved Tamil film, represents a genre that has an important place in Indian film history.
On DD, soonANUPAMA KATAKAMThe Supreme Court orders the national broadcaster to screen Anand Patwardhan's film "Father, Son and Holy War" without cuts.
A theatre storyANNIE ZAIDIThe documentary points to the need for the theatre of the committed and the brave, and for the need to keep such theatre alive.
Unlikely colleaguesSUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAYThe friendship between a French-Canadian Jesuit and a Bengali film-maker led to path-breaking work in film studies.
Is a reversal of bank nationalisation on the cards? Calls for privatisation have grown louder just as public sector banks clean up their balance sheets.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
