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‘All forms of censorship need to be removed’
Filmmaker Shonali Bose opens up about her personal tragedy, the ongoing protests around India, censorship and more AFTER MAKING her directorial debut with Amu (2005), writer-director Shonali Bose went on to direct two critically acclaimed films, Margarita with a Straw(2015) and The Sky Is Pink (2019). With these, Bose made a reputation for herself as […]
The menace survives, workers do not
Sanitation worker Ravi died after inhaling toxic fumes while another worker landed in the hospital. Neither had any protective gear BARELY METRES away from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a campaign rally at Delhi’s CBD Ground on Monday, a sanitation worker had died while cleaning a sewer two days earlier. Ravi, 24, was contracted […]
The devil in the details
The budget was long in speech and short on the assumptions that went into its making “ASSUMPTIONS ARE the mother of all screw-ups,” goes an old English saying. The central government budget, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, earlier today rests, like any other budget, on assumptions — many of them. The question as always […]
Let’s not repeat history
Jojo Rabbit teaches us about the price collectively paid for fascism in the past. The movie is a visceral reminder of the past intruding on our present as we encounter violent right-wing racism and communal violence around us DIRECTED BY Taika Waititi and based on the book Caging Skies by Christine Leunens, Jojo Rabbit is […]
Feisty warrior
Kamla Lowe’s husband died in a flying accident in 1962. At 98, she’s still waging a legal battle for pension the Air Force owes her KAMLA LOWE is 98. But don’t be fooled by her age. She’s sprightly as ever, and tuned into what’s happening around her. Kamla follows the news and is therefore aware […]
Partyless but not voiceless
Independent candidates are livening up the Delhi Assembly election campaign and widening the choice for voters. A look at four of them DELHI ASSEMBLY elections are around the corner and we have the three main parties fighting for the Capital city’s power seat. But while the spotlight is on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bhartiya Janata […]
Gunmen wreak havoc in Jamia area
The police have reportedly identified the shooters as Mohammad Luqmaan and Rambhakt Gopal A STUDENT of Jamia Milia Islamia University was shot by a gunman on Thursday afternoon. A video doing the rounds on social media shows the gunman brandishing a countrymade pistol and telling a group of protesters on the road outside the university, […]
Steering clear
AAP has kept the controversy surrounding the anti and pro CAA rhetoric at arms length, but why? ON JANUARY 26, Amit Shah made a fresh pitch in his Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign strategy for the impending Delhi election. Addressing the party’s social media volunteers at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the home minister raked up the […]