India, Dec. 22 -- Indian cinema has perfected a particular moment when it comes to representing Muslims. Somewhere in the act, usually amid rising tension, a Muslim character raises his voice and anno... Read More
India, Dec. 19 -- Very few books about Kashmir have Kashmiris at the centre as individuals with lives and voices of their own. More often, they are rendered only as political subjects who are importan... Read More
India, Dec. 11 -- We have spent the last decade arguing about representation at the level of casting and cataloguing. Sunetra Gupta in her Memories of Rain worked 30 years ago on the slower problem of... Read More
India, Oct. 30 -- Art of the Western world, especially, has always had a soft spot for suffering. Pain makes for good drama, and artists have long treated misery as their most reliable muse. This is s... Read More