Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Tuesday, 25 February 2025

Of feudal tyranny!

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Nishant (Night's End, Hindi, 1975) Director: Shyam Benegal Cultural practices and people's thinking evolve as society progresses. Ev...
Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Normalising woke culture?

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Kadhalikka Neramillai (No time to love,  காதலிக்க நேரமில்லை;  Tamil, 2025) Director: Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi https://www.moneycontrol.com/ente...
Friday, 24 November 2023

Beyond strengthening ties?

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Under the guise of surveillance, imperial powers went to all four corners of the world. Their true intentions, as was eventually discovered ...
Saturday, 2 September 2023

Tied me down?

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In this day and age, would feminists find Rakshabandhan relevant anymore? Increasingly, we see ladies becoming the alpha and highly testoste...
Friday, 25 March 2022

Beyond doing the right things!

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I'll meet you there (2021) Story, Direction: Iram Parveen Bilal The movie's title has its origin from one of Rumi's sayings. Out...
Friday, 18 February 2022

Nothing is sacrosanct!

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Gehraiyaan (Depths, Hindi; 2022) Director: Shakun Batra The democratisation of movie-making has  led to this - an Indian fairy tale movie  m...
Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Is it an imagined war or a real one?

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Hindu Society Under Siege (1981) Sita Ram Goel Hindu culture has a very long history. Its history goes back beyond 2500 BC. Recent astr...
Tuesday, 20 October 2020

The new norm?

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That a look at these two Presidential debates, the first one was in 1960 between JFK and Nixon, whilst the second one happened recently in t...