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Annie Besant, a 1925 photograph.

Grit and gumption: Annie Besant and the Indian freedom movement

An assessment of Annie Besant’s (1847-1933) role in the Indian freedom movement on the 175th anniversary of her birth.

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The newly elected President Gabriel Boric before the presentation of his Cabinet in Santiago on January 21.

Chilean documentary films: Records of resistance

As Chile looks forward to a hopeful future under the recently elected socialist President Gabriel Boric, a review of the large body of films that has

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An image of Henry Derozio.

Henry Derozio: Early iconoclast

A freethinker par excellence, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio’s alleged notoriety lay in his incessant exhortations to his students to cease conforming to

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Still from ‘Two’, Ray’s shortest film. It runs for 15 minutes.

Satyajit Ray's documentaries: A mixed bag

When it came to documentaries, with the exception of The Inner Eye on the blind painting genius Benode Behari Mukhopadhyay, Satyajit Ray did not scale

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Maya Roy in her heyday.

Maya Roy: Forgotten star of silent era

Debiprosad Ghosh’s painstaking research pieces together the writings of Maya Roy, an actor of the silent movie era who did groundbreaking work as a pe

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Tareque Masud with Mishuk Munier during the filming of “Adam Surot”, 1985.

Of genocide and liberation: the works of Tareque Masud

Tareque Masud introduced the new generation of Bangladeshis to the freedom struggle through his Muktir Gaan, Muktir Kotha and Matir Moina, films that

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Smita Patil in ‘Akaler Santhaney’ (In Search of Famine). The film won the Silver Bear at Berlin.

Revisiting Mrinal Sen’s ‘Calcutta ’71’

Mrinal Sen’s provocative reaction to the spectre of hunger, Calcutta ’71, turns 50. This work of the master film-maker deserves to be seen, studied an

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Sumitra Bhave: A quiet rebel

Sumitra Bhave’s (1943-2021) Marathi films were important signposts for expressing popular disquiet in a strikingly restrained language.

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