by Sami Ahmad Khan | Jun 8, 2016 | Articles
Geopolitical flashpoints are not always unusual spaces of stunning, ethereal beauty. The state of Jammu and Kashmir is an exception: a strategic flashpoint etched on unsuspecting travelers’ minds as “a heaven on Earth,” the Kashmir Valley is a seismic zone of...
by Niyati Bhat | May 4, 2016 | Articles
In 2002, Joshua Oppenheimer arrived in Indonesia to instruct some workers on methods of documentary filmmaking at a plantation. What was meant to be a small trip turned into a long journey into Indonesia’s violent past that consists of one of the most horrifying...
by Salik Shah | May 4, 2016 | Articles
Jayant Narlikar. Photograph: Thulasi Kakkat / The Hindu. Vandana Singh. Photograph: ASU.edu. When writers tell stories in their ‘mother’ tongue, perhaps fiction becomes more real. After comparing Hindi and English translations of Jayant Narlikar’s Marathi...
by Mark Bould | Apr 1, 2016 | Articles
Suddenly, some time around 2010, people started to notice. Neil Blomkamp’s District 9 (2009) got four Oscar nominations and Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi (2009) won the best short film award at the Cannes Independent Film Festival. Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death (2010) won...
by Bhushita Vasistha | Feb 28, 2016 | Articles
The Edibles and The Inedibles I do not remember how Mother looked when she came to Saptari with a child cradled in her arms. The journey from Kathmandu, where she was trying to complete her Bachelor in Arts with no small difficulties, must have been tiresome. I was...
