Caste in Indian Cinema, 1930s to 2016
A two part article. The author finds that no film comes so close to the truth of what is really happening in our society today.
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‘Shaheen Bagh and Mumbai Bagh, Sister Fields’: New Poems for Our Times
Excerpts from ‘Song of a Rebel and Other Selected Poems’ by Bina Sarkar Ellias.
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Culture After Covid: Artists Cannot Be Tone Deaf in the Face of the Real World
Where are the modern compositions which speak of today? Even as I write, dead bodies have been found floating on the Ganga. My response to it cannot always be Tulsidas or Kabir.
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Remembering India’s First Modern Sculptor, Ramkinkar Baij
He broke free from the stultifying conformism of colonial and pre-modern studio sculpturing to encompass in his work the lives and struggles of plain, unremarkable human beings.
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Wamandada Kardak: Singing a Casteless Republic into Being
Maharashtra’s Wamandada Kardak was the one singer, shahir, musician, poet and lyricist who changed the structure and politics of music. He is called the modern Kabir, for he made music the weapon of the masses, by imagining and singing the idea of Prabuddha Bharath.
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The Militant Origins of Indian Dance
All primary Indian dance forms, originating in primitive and tribal societies, are solidly linked with work activity. Classical forms have not been able to shed the martial and gymnastic poses of forms from which they originated.
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How Bengali Civil Society Stood Up Against the BJP
From a people’s campaign on ‘No Vote To BJP’ to a music video by a galaxy of artists against the party’s ‘ideology of hatred’, the civil society in Bengal had a powerful impact in the recent polls.
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BJP Furious as Top Gujarati Poet Blames ‘Naked King’ Modi for Corpses Floating in the Ganga
Parul Khakkar poured out her distress in a powerful 14-line poem. Now, even as she is praised by writers and people at large for voicing the nation’s suffering, she is a target for the ruling party’s troll army.
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The Most Dangerous Thing in the World is the Death of Our Dreams: Three Poems
The Most Dangerous Thing in the World is the Death of Our Dreams; Grass; Our Blood Is in the Habit of Celebrating Life
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Kolhapur’s Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj and His Battle for Dalit-Bahujan Communities
The beloved ruler is supposed to be the first king to introduce affirmative action policies in education and employment for the benefit of Dalit communities.
