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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Allegory
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro- An alternate imagination of Mumbai and the “big city”
Preview: The trope of the ‘big city’ has always been a cornerstone of Hindi cinema right from its early days.
Read MoreThe Story of Another National Identification Card: Indonesia’s Kartu Tanda Penduduk
Whilst reading one of the seminal works on nationalism, Benedict Anderson’s ‘Imagined Communities’, one comes across an unassuming footnote on
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Kula Kalvi Thittam (1953) and Relaxation of Child Labour Laws (2015): An Allegorical Reading.
This is an account of two political stories, one which unfolded more than five decades ago and another which still
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