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
Unlikely colleaguesSUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAYThe friendship between a French-Canadian Jesuit and a Bengali film-maker led to path-breaking work in film studies.
Drama therapyBY SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY in KolkataA new theatre group of blind women holds out the promise to be a milestone in Indian theatre history.
Dramatic exposeSUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY in KolkataA Bengali play based on extensive research and investigation creates a genre of its own.
Protest, lament, celebrationGOWRI RAMNARAYANThis year's Bharatrang Mahotsav, the eighth edition of the theatre festival organised by the National School of Drama in Delhi, proves irresistible.
Voices from the shadowsGOWRI RAMNARAYAN"THEATRE in Turmoil", a seminar masterminded by eminent theatre director Richard Schechner and theatre scholar Samik Bandyopadhyay, was part of Bharat
Rediscovering a Gandhi filmT.S. SUBRAMANIANAn abridged version of a long-lost documentary on Mahatma Gandhi, with the commentary in English, is traced in the United States. But the original Tam
Keezhavenmani revisitedS. VISWANATHANThe Keezhavenmani massacre of December 25, 1968, by landlords and their henchmen, which was all but ignored by the mainstream press, is poignantly bro
Bihar and BollywoodMAITHILI RAOA bunch of recent films explore the socio-political reality of Bihar, a State by and large ignored by mainstream Hindi cinema.
Victims' strugglesMAITHILI RAOThe latest offerings from film-makers Girish Kasaravalli and Rituparno Ghosh are out. Their many differences apart, both films tell the story of the f
A professor in his labyrinthMAITHILI RAOJahnu Barua's Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara is a brave attempt at confronting the uncomfortable issue of mental illness in the aged.
`A constant process of discovery'Interview with Adoor Gopalakrishnan, winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
Debate over old pension scheme divides State governments and Centre The Centre has launched a propaganda war to discredit this decision against the new scheme.
