Filmmaking started in India with the retelling of Hindu myths. Even after the popularity of religious films declined, religious belief and practice have continued to be part of filmic narratives.
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Dance is an essential element of Hindi films, often surviving in the public imagination long after the film has had its run. The form was created for the screen, and there it adapted and evolved, often driving technological and production innovations.
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Popular dancers of Hindi Cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s.
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How a septuagenarian American man keeps classic Indian films alive
Narayan Lavate’s lifelong pursuit of death
Denotified tribes and a much-needed legal intervention
The Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project (CPAProject) is a research and litigation intervention against criminalisation of communities and on decarceration.
Rohit Shetty's Simmba is a throwback to Hindi films' depiction of rape as 'entertainment'
The documentary on the ‘Pocket Hercules’ Manohar Aich won a special jury award at the National Film Awards.
The Curious Case of Indian Animation
Why is there such a dearth of good quality content at home when there’s so much Oscar-winning talent?
It’s no surprise that Usha Bane’s one and only tryst with acting in Chaitanya Tamhane's Court was a such a standout one. She played a manual scavenger’s widow, whose life struggles resonated with eerie similarity to her own.
The other Meghalaya music scene from the documentary series ‘Songs to Live By’
The six part series looks at fading community traditions in Meghalaya.
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‘Art before commerce’: Calvin and Hobbes and what made the comic strip so special
The Subcontinent’s Original Bad Girl Otherwise Known as Ismat Apa
Ismat Chughtai was a rebel from the outset with her sharp eye and ready wit.
Inside Dantewada's Phagun Madai celebrations
Arson, rape, brutal murders: What the Rohingya saw before they fled Myanmar
Book Review: Wendy Doniger Revisits the Kamasutra
Doniger’s account of the Kamasutra attempts to reinstate the book in the canon of Sanskrit literature.
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Inside A Feminist Film Festival
As Mumbai woke up to India’s Independence Day with songs of patriotism (of Shaheeds, Jawans and Khoon ) blaring through everywhere, in an alternate universe a feminist docu film festival was stirring to life.
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Mumbai's historic fishing district — Sassoon Docks — gets a makeover with a street art project
From student to anti-national to terrorist – how TV channels constructed Umar Khalid
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Meet the Indian 'Elephant Boy' who played Mowgli and became a movie star in the 1940s
Rajasthan's Barefoot College is turning semi-literate African women into solar engineers
Documentary ‘Glide’ takes the top-angle view on paragliding culture in a Himachal village
Documentary 'The Fight to Dance' looks at why dance bars are against culture but item songs are not
'No-fuel' restaurant menus, fewer surgeries: How Nepal is coping with India’s economic blockade