Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Enemy At The Gates

With the terrorist attack at Pathankot in the news, Pakistan is once again supervillain in the Indian media. However, when it comes to portraying the evil of terrorism in West...

Read More
Kaleidoscope

Eliza By Any Other Name

December 2015 marked the end of the year long birth centenary celebrations of pioneering theatre personality Begum Qudsia Zaidi. To her goes the credit for translating and ada...

Read More
Kaleidoscope

Bring On The Girls

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was a publishing sensation and made legit the dysfunctional ‘girl’. Paula Hawkins’s debut novel, The Girl On The Train zoome...

Read More
Kaleidoscope

Her Name Was Gauhar

There is little documentation about India’s great performing artistes and even less about the women. The tawaifs, despite their talent and refinement had the added disa...

Read More
Kaleidoscope

Crime And Punishment

The film Drishyam (in its many versions), raised curiosity about the Japanese book that inspired it. The bestselling Japanese novel is also reportedly being made into another ...

Read More
Kaleidoscope

7/7/07: Heart Of Darkness

Reyhaneh Jabbari was just nineteen when she was arrested for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. After six years of torture and torment she was hanged in October 2014, ...

Read More
Kaleidoscope

Bond Forever

As the latest James Bond film, Spectre become a global hit, and rakes 31.9 crores on opening weekend in India, despite the ‘kiss’ controversy, the one criticism by...

Read More

POLITICS: THE DISTURBING RISE OF LYNCHING

How many more lives will be taken in the name of beef? The unchecked violence, fuelled b...

September 8 2024

GENDER: CIVIL SOCIETY DEMANDS KERALA FILM REFORMS

Eminent civil society members, including activists, authors, and journalists, appeal to ...

September 7 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: CELEB SOUNDBYTES AND HUMAN TRAGEDIES

Monojit Lahiri investigates this contentious issue in the face of the latest nightmare e...

September 6 2024