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Retroscope
RETROSPECTIVE: CINEMA, CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME
Exploring Shumona Goel’s experimental cinema through fragmented time, sensory aesthetics, and urban modernity, this analysis connects her work to Bergsonism, quantum mec...
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RETROSPECTIVE: “ORIDAM” @20 IS A PORTRAIT OF PAIN
A poignant exploration of a sex worker’s struggles, Pradeep Nair’s Oridam challenges conventional portrayals of female sexuality, offering a visually compelling, e...
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RETROSCOPE: VIOLATIONS, DEMOLITIONS, PUBLIC OUTRAGE
Humra Quraishi’s reflections on a year of upheaval for minorities, where state actions and identity politics have eroded trust. This year-end retrospective urges readers...
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THE EMOTION DRIVING MODERN INDIA TODAY: MAHATMA GANDHI
On the Mahatma’s 154th birth anniversary, Humra Quraishi brings snatches of conversations she’s had with those closely connected with Gandhi, and his grandch...
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Sing freedom: Songs of nationalist fervour
Anil Dixit walks down melody lane to track some of the most memorable songs of our national pride and patriotism Patriotic songs are de rigueur for occasions such as Independ...
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The Forever Story: Protima Gauri (Bedi)
Humra Quraishi writes that Protima Bedi, was the quintessential modern Indian woman who had once written her own destiny She passed away twenty two years ago on A...
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Chann Pardesi: Reuniting with the cult-classic
Aparajita Krishna writes, Chann Pardesi would be a stranger to the young cine-goer, India 2020, including the young diaspora generation. However, a news item featured in the ...
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Mohammed Rafi: Forty Years Later
Anil Dixit exults about Mohammed Rafi’s imperishable legacy of songs, on the occasion of the legendary crooner’s 40th death anniversary. I confess I write this on...
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Takes two to duet: Lata Mangeshkar’s duets with female singers
Anil Dixit handpicks a selection of rare film duets in which other female singers matched up to the skills of the Maharani of Melody, Lata Mangeshkar In the constellati...
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Yesterday’s Agent Vinod: Why he quit Bollywood
Film historian, Dhruv Somani, tracks down Mahendra Sandhu, to his farmhouse in Chandigarh for a freewheeling interview. He’s Sandhu, Mahendra Sandhu. Now 73, this...
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