Hindi cinema has a long-standing history of legitimising and perpetuating rape culture
Saumya Baijal
Editor
Very few writers and lyricists have woven anger into poetry with such ease as Gulzar, and made it a part of everyday cultural language.
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In this dystopian world, Guru Dutt becomes more and more essential than ever. As an artist who reminds us to feel. To linger on pathos and let us absorb it
Despite being added to each other on social networks and our electronic leashes, we are still in the midst of a loneliness epidemic, acute as it is for the digital natives born in a world of networks but limited connections.
One of the most influential, popular and expensive industries is now being reduced to a political tool to weave narratives that conform to the ruling regime and help them spread their agendas
With commercial Hindi cinema following patriarchal tropes, indie films like ‘All India Rank’ and ‘Laapata Ladies’ bring to the big screen the feminist idioms we desperately need. They showcase real people with their real needs, desires, and loves, the way they ought to be.
The language of war becomes different from the language of just violence because the language of war not only exacerbates violence to an even more aggressive level but also makes it unapologetic, unchecked, and unquestioned.
Ab Toh Sab Bhagwan Bharose is a timely reminder of a past that has shaped the hate of the present
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