Mirza Ghalib (1988) by Gulzar: Reality, realism and allegorical liberty.
Indian television has not always been this melodramatic, lavishly decked up chimera of the life and times of the
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Essays
Rangey Raghav’s ‘Tufanon ke beech’- an authentic yet sensitive reportage on Bengal famine
The Bengal famine of 1942-44 was one of the worst human-made disasters of the modern history because of which 2.1
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Aakrosh and Article 15: Four decades apart yet similar flaws in addressing Caste-based Violence
Preview: Two Hindi films, Aakrosh (1980) and Article 15 (2019), almost four decades apart addressed violence perpetrated by savarna caste
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The Violence and Horror Strewn Modern Mythological Novels
The relationship of religion and literature has undergone a transformation lately, because of which novels based on mythological stories have
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The Deep Creases of Caste in Indian Cricket
The announcement of a ‘Brahmins Only’ Cricket Tournament which was held at Hyderabad’s BSR Cricket Grounds on December 25 and
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A Polar-Centric Approach to Understanding the Arctic Climate Crisis vis-à-vis Global Politics and Commerce
Much of the prevalent discourse on environment, resource economy, climate change etc. has been focused on the polar regions to
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The Kallumaala Samaram- Why is it denied its significant place in History?
Caste oppression was in its heyday, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Kerala (then Travancore), a fact observed by
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