Shruti Das

Unlikely bonding

Unlikely bonding

With astonishingly good timing, a feature film that shows Kashmiri boy Hamid’s relationship with a CRPF jawan is coming to a…

March 19, 2019

It happens every month

It’s high time we stopped treating the topic of menstruation as a taboo in front of men, and stopped keeping…

March 14, 2019

Period: Start of a journey

After the documentary Period: End of Sentence won an Oscar, Patriot visits Kathikeda village to find a lot has changed…

March 7, 2019

Black is beautiful

This year, black artists made history with seven record wins at the Academy Awards. But is it enough? “The word…

February 28, 2019

India’s distant Oscar dream

India – the country which produces the largest film in the world – has not won a single Oscar in…

February 21, 2019

Not much more than a chick flick

The world of Four More Shots Please is far from real – expensive booze, perfect looks and casual flings take…

February 15, 2019

Beauty with a heart

The famous temple in Madurai is named after Meenakshi, the goddess of love and fertility – and is debatably the…

February 7, 2019

Bollywood and the art of propaganda

The timing of a recent slew of ‘political’ and ‘nationalist’ films before the elections is not a coincidence The scene…

February 7, 2019

Bitter taste of Koffee

Karan Johar’s show on Star World is finally getting flak for its disturbing attempts to tease out revelations about the…

January 24, 2019