New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- The recent passing away of the Barbadian cricketing giant Garfield Sobers, days short of his 90th birthday, signifies not just a huge sporting loss but the disappearance of a Blac... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- There was a time-the 1970s to the 1990s-when the Indian Panorama showcase would attract many film aficionados from different parts of the country and from abroad to the Internat... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Some 45 years have passed since this writer first saw that breathtaking film about how "untouchables" lived and died-in poverty, squalor, and abject degradation-once upon a time... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- No social institution has spawned more writings, paintings, or dance and music than the family. Again, representations of the family in varied shapes, sizes, descriptions, behavi... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- The just-ended World Cup saw Lionel Messi and his team, along with thousands of Argentines in the stands, repeatedly invoke the killing of "our brothers" in Las Malvinas 44 years... Read More
New Delhi, July 27 -- Few films have exerted as profound and lasting an influence on viewers the world over as The Bicycle Thieves. Its maker, the legendary master of Italian neorealism, Vittorio de S... Read More