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Author: Darshana Goswami

Shyam Benegal — the Affable Auteur

December 14, 2021April 27, 2023By Darshana Goswami 0 Comments

Shyam Benegal: the Affable Auteur “Weave a circle around him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’   The most endearing aspect of Shyam Benegal as an individual and a director is his unassuming demeanour. He is an […]

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Geeta Dutt — the Muse of Unstrained Melodies

November 23, 2021February 1, 2022By Darshana Goswami 0 Comments

Geeta Dutt ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. – John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale   In Geeta Dutt’s warbling voice, subdued smile […]

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Vivien Leigh — the Scorn that Won the World

November 5, 2021February 1, 2022By Darshana Goswami 0 Comments

Vivien Leigh — the Scorn that Won the World “Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, […]

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Shabana Azmi

September 18, 2021February 1, 2022By Darshana Goswami 0 Comments

Shabana Azmi  Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety   These lines from Antony and Cleopatra, originally woven by the Bard of Avon to sing a paean to the Egyptian queen, seem apt for Shabana Azmi. There is an unwritten norm that most celebrities much before they approach seventy opt for retirement […]

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Meena Kumari

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021By Darshana Goswami Bimal Roy 0 Comments

It has been almost half a century since Meena Kumari (1933- 1972) passed away, and yet her evocative silver screen images come back again and again to stir our emotions. In death, as in life, she remains the creator of many stories, exactly resembling Princess Scheherazade of the Arabian Nights. The Arabian Princess wove endless […]

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Kaifi Azmi — the Poet of Love, Revolution & Regeneration

January 14, 2021January 29, 2021By Darshana Goswami 0 Comments

Kaifi Azmi — the Poet of Love, Revolution and Regeneration Aaj ki raat bahut garm hava chalti hai Aaj ki raat na footpath pe niind aa.egi Sab uTho, main bhi uThun tum bhi uTho, tum bhi uTho Koi khiDki isi divar men khul ja.egi   (A sultry wind blows tonight, Sleep won’t visit the footpath […]

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Saeed Jaffrey — the Transcultural Beacon

January 8, 2021January 29, 2021By Darshana Goswami 0 Comments

Saeed Jaffrey — the Transcultural Beacon “I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea.” -Alfred Tennyson, ‘Ulysses’   Literally in […]

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Sharmila Tagore — A Journey Trapped between Promises and Possibilities

December 8, 2020December 27, 2020By Darshana Goswami 0 Comments

Sharmila Tagore ‘From the east to western Ind, No jewel is like Rosalind. Her worth, being mounted on the wind, Through all the world bears Rosalind. All the pictures fairest lined Are but black to Rosalind, Let no face be kept in mind But the fair Rosalind’ –Shakespeare, As You Like It (Act III, scene […]

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Aparna Sen — A River Plunging into its Own Depths

October 25, 2020October 25, 2020By Darshana Goswami Shakespeare 1 Comments

Aparna Sen Where the bee sucks, There suck I; In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry; On the Bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily , merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom That hangs on the bough. -The Tempest, Act V, Scene I   With […]

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Book review — Chalachitrar Rashaswadan

May 29, 2020February 1, 2022By Darshana Goswami 0 Comments

Of all the genres of mass culture, cinema is arguably the most popular and universal, yet it is also the most intricate. Cinema is rigorous multi tasking and meticulous teamwork. It is the ultimate example of intermedia art that brings together an assortment of technological expertise and artistic insight. In cinema we see people like […]

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Editorial Board

Amit Khanna
amit@amitkhanna.in


Rashmi Doraiswamy
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Saibal Chatterjee
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Rafique Baghdadi
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Authors

  1. Aditya Modak
  2. Amartya Acharya
  3. Amborish
  4. Amitava Nag
  5. Amit Khanna
  6. Ananya Nandan
  7. Anirban Lahiri
  8. Aparajita Sinha
  9. Arnab K Middya
  10. Babu Subramanian
  11. Daniela Rogobete
  12. Darshana Goswami
  13. Dnyanesh Moghe
  14. Divya Mehta
  15. Devdutt Trivedi
  16. Dipsikha Bhagawati
  17. Gautam Kaul
  18. Joy Bimal Roy
  19. Manoj Barpujari
  20. MK Raghavendra
  21. Monita Borgohain
  22. Mukhta Chand
  23. Oorvazi Irani
  24. Parthajit Baruah
  25. Premchand
  26. Priyanka Purthy
  27. Ratnottama Sengupta
  28. RK Bidur Singh
  29. Sathya Saran
  30. Saurabh Turakhia
  31. Sayantan Dutta
  32. S Viswanath
  33. Utpal Datta
  34. Vanessa Lien Bianci

Book Chapters

Preface — Words. Sounds. Images: A History of Media and Entertainment in India by Amit Khanna


Understanding a twin subgenre: new- and mixed-gen cinema of Malayalam by Christopher Dalton

Editor

Christopher Dalton
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