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New Delhi: Film-maker Leslee Udwin, Director of the documentary 'India's Daughter', speaks during a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI Photo (PTI3_3_2015_000193B)

In denial

Instead of acknowledging and addressing systemic problems such as rape and other forms of violence against women and regressive mindsets, the governm

Contemplating a century

Mainstream Indian cinema’s hundred year spree makes for a pulsating narrative. Though it has gone from selling dreams in the initial days to commodify

The New World Disorder

Tariq Ali, in this exclusive interview, seamlessly switches from contemporary historian to scholar-at-large to polemicist to raconteur, as he tackles

Tamil cinema’s double act

In Tamil cinema, a band of directors has been quietly making films grounded in local realities and away from big-star formulas but working within t

The Hon'ble Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is addressing to the Nation from the Delhi Station of All India Radio (AIR) on the night of September 07, 1946.

‘Lend me your ears’

That would be the earnest tenor of the discourse on radio in a situation where private radio channels can carry news and AIR is a public rather than a

Ben Affleck poses with his award for best picture for 'Argo' during at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)

Argo: Telling the story and spinning a yarn

Ben Affleck’s film ‘Argo’ is not about seeking to understand or about reconciling differences, but about reinforcing the “othering” of Iran. Irrespect

Cross media currents

What emerges from TRAI’s “Consultation Paper on Issues relating to Media Ownership” is that the media need to be mapped so that there is a clear pictu

The owner of the Westlicht Galery, Peter Coeln, poses on January 25, 2010 in Vienna, with a very rare Alphonse Giroux Daguerreotype camera from 1839. The camera will gol under the hammer on May 29, 2010 in Vienna for bids expected to start at 200,000 euros and a sale expected to break new world records for a camera. AFP PHOTO / DIETER NAGL

Art and aura

The work of art in the age of digital representation (with apologies to Walter Benjamin).

CHENNAI, 09/01/2013: Kamal Haasan arriving to address the media at his residence in Alwarpet in Chennai on Wednesday. Photo: K_Pichumani

More to it than meets the eye

Muslim groups that allege a slur on Islam in Kamal Haasan’s ‘Viswaroopam’ risk being seen as apologists for Al Qaeda. More interesting is the film’s p

(FILES) This file photo from Egypt's official news agency MENA shows Prominent US-Palestinian intellectual Edward Said addressing students and staff of the American University in Cairo 17 March, 2003. Said, professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University died in a New York hospital on 25, September, 2003 at the age of 67, following a long struggle with leukemia. AFP PHOTO/MENA/HO

On ‘mediacracy’ and intellectuals

While the broadcast media often arrogates to itself the right to speak in the name of the nation, catering to their “customers” in the process, intell

AUSTRALIAN FILM-MAKER PAUL COX in Thiruvananthapuram on December 12 during the film festival.-S. MAHINSHA

Conversations in the cacophony

Contemplative cinema dealing with the quotidian and the humane can surpass, and be more devastatingly enduring than, the spectacular or speculative ci

warangal (Andhra Pradesh) A film

featuring actors Nitin and Priyamani

being shot at the historic Fort in

Warangal on Sunday. photo_m_murali

(28.09.08)

Portrayals of rape

SHE boarded a bus in Munirka to return home to Dwarka, south-west of Delhi, after an evening show of