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Signs of the time: The politics that ‘meats’ the eyes
Humra Quraishi discusses the divisive politics being played by right-wing forces and the relentless efforts being made to create rifts between Hindus and Muslims. With more...
Read MoreSigns of the time: Who is accountable?
Humra Quraishi recalls her brief meeting with Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu and worries for the state of prisoners in our jails awaiting trial. As I was about to fil...
Read MoreSigns of the time: Stories of Muslim Youth
Humra Quraishi shares her views on the stories of Muslim youth falsely implicated, the talks between the leaderships of Kashmir and the union government of India and the relen...
Read MoreBroken windows and promises
Humra Quraishi recalls her conversations with Abdul Ghani Lone, Maulana Abbas Ansari, Abdul Gani Bhat and Yasin Malik at separate instances with regard to dialogue and discuss...
Read MoreSign of the times: This is the darkest hour
Humra Quraishi revisits her conversations with Saira Banu and Khushwant Singh, both of whom had predicted that the times to come, which are here, will be darker than the...
Read MoreWhere there is no will, there is violence
Humra Quraishi talks about how polarisation in grassroots India, by the use of state machinery, is spreading violence and fear among minorities. Earlier this week a ...
Read MoreSigns of the times: India’s battle for its soul
Humra Quraishi looks back at the last seven years in India, through the lens of A.G. Noorani’s writings about the RSS and Ruskin Bond’s verse. For several minut...
Read MoreHow civilized is the civilized world?
Vinta Nanda insists that we, the so-called civilized people, talk about poverty, violence and exclusion. Let us talk about what it means to be born under the sky and be vic...
Read MoreSigns of the times: Death and Destruction
Humra Quraishi recalls Saadat Hasan Manto in the month of his birth, and imagines what he would have said and written in these tragic times. May stands for Manto - after al...
Read MoreSigns of the times: Not afraid of the dark
Humra Quraishi describes one part of the apocalypse we are experiencing in India right now – only one part. What’s happening to the jailed population during the...
Read MoreMOVIES: A GENTLE DOWNPOUR OF INDIE SUCCESS
Ritopriyo Saha’s short film Chhoti Baarish (Little Rain) is creating ripples acros...
October 19 2025POWERFUL PEOPLE: THE QUESTION UNANSWERED
As India celebrates the birth centenary of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, the Bard of the Brahmapu...
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When art-house brilliance wins global acclaim but faces neglect in its own country, it f...
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