HISTORY Grit and gumption: Annie Besant and the Indian freedom movementVidyarthy ChatterjeeAn assessment of Annie Besant’s (1847-1933) role in the Indian freedom movement on the 175th anniversary of her birth.
CINEMA Chilean documentary films: Records of resistanceVIDYARTHY CHATTERJEEAs 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
TRIBUTE Henry Derozio: Early iconoclast Vidyarthy ChatterjeeA freethinker par excellence, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio’s alleged notoriety lay in his incessant exhortations to his students to cease conforming to
DOCUMENTARIES Satyajit Ray's documentaries: A mixed bagVidyarthy ChatterjeeWhen it came to documentaries, with the exception of The Inner Eye on the blind painting genius Benode Behari Mukhopadhyay, Satyajit Ray did not scale
Story of a silent era pioneer Maya Roy: Forgotten star of silent eraVidyarthy ChatterjeeDebiprosad 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
CINEMA Of genocide and liberation: the works of Tareque MasudVidyarthy ChatterjeeTareque Masud introduced the new generation of Bangladeshis to the freedom struggle through his Muktir Gaan, Muktir Kotha and Matir Moina, films that
CINEMA Revisiting Mrinal Sen’s "Calcutta ’71" Vidyarthy ChatterjeeMrinal 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
TRIBUTE Sumitra Bhave: A quiet rebel VIDYARTHY CHATTERJEESumitra Bhave’s (1943-2021) Marathi films were important signposts for expressing popular disquiet in a strikingly restrained language.
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
