How Montage Became Cinema's Trap: Dhurandhar, DC and Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups
Frontlineby Prathyush Parasuraman AI Summary·13d ago
First Dhurandhar, then DC, then Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups—three films this year that foreground male angst, all three emblematic of the montage movie, a new kind of cinema.
India’s Election Crisis and the Erosion of Public Trust
Frontlineby Muqtedar Khan·13d ago
India is once again embroiled in a controversy that follows a familiar pattern: a failure of governance manifests itself; those responsible initially deny the problem and resist calls to address...
Democracy Hollowed Out
Frontlineby Vaishna Roy AI Summary·13d ago
At the best of times, elections can only be an approximate barometer of real democratic depth. It is real citizen participation in everyday governance that signals substantive democracy.
IIT Bombay suicide and the ethics of airing CCTV footage
Frontlineby Jyoti Punwani·13d ago
Should the CCTV footage of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode writing his exam and being confronted by the invigilator have been aired?
Q on Deshlai, Failed Youth, and Independent Cinema
Frontlineby Devarsi Ghosh·13d ago
“All my films are a result of failures,” says Q. “Every time I failed at something, my response was to make a film.” Little wonder that the 53-year-old Bengali filmmaker is one of India’s foremost...
Justice Sharma Recusal Row and India’s Judicial Ethics
Frontlineby V Venkatesan AI Summary·13d ago
In 1998, the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was fighting extradition from Britain to Spain, where proceedings had been initiated against him over allegations of torture and other grave...
J&K Assembly Passes Resolution Seeking Immediate Statehood
Frontlineby Gowhar Geelani AI Summary·13d ago
After BJP legislators created an uproar and staged a walkout, the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly passed a resolution seeking immediate restoration of full statehood on September 28, during...
IIT Bombay’s caste problem predates Sahil Wakode’s suicide
Frontlineby Amey Tirodkar AI Summary·13d ago
The IIT Bombay (IIT-B) administration, which is in the eye of a storm after a Scheduled Caste (SC) student named Sahil Wakode died by suicide on September 18, has denied that there is caste...
UCC has diluted inheritance rights of Hindu and Muslim women in Uttarakhand
Frontlineby Ajaz Ashraf AI Summary·14d ago
Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently threatened to introduce the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in all the States governed by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance before 2029.
India’s political class and its deep ties to the US
Frontlineby Saba Naqvi AI Summary·14d ago
At a time when the world order is shifting on its axis, it is worth noting how some nations helming this transformation have shaped their psychological and legal approach to their own citizens who...
Once Upon A Time | Anaxagoras: The Dangers of Being An Intellectual
Frontlineby Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay AI Summary·15d ago
Dear Reader, Around the 5th century BCE, there lived in Athens an unsmiling, grim-countenanced man by the name of Anaxagoras, who went about claiming that the stars were fiery stones, the sun was a...
Damodar Mauzo: Why Konkani Chose Him as a Writer
Frontlineby Majid Maqbool AI Summary·15d ago
Damodar Mauzo’s first library was two books, brought home by his father when typhoid confined him to bed as a boy.
"Mirzapur: The Movie" and the Limits of Female Power
Frontlineby Sarthak Parashar·15d ago
Conversation around Mirzapur, one of India’s most popular streaming shows, often circles back to how strong its female characters are.
In Meghamalai, Forest Protection Meets a Humanitarian Crisis
Frontlineby Ilangovan Rajasekaran AI Summary·15d ago
About 5,000 hectares (ha) of forest land in the ecologically vulnerable Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district has been classified as “encroached” upon and around 5,300 families have been...
Mayyu Ali’s Memoir Eradication Exposes the Orchestrated Genocide of the Rohingya
Frontlineby Amritesh Mukherjee·15d ago
What does home mean to you: The four walls of your house? The deed to a land? A feeling, a memory? Or all of the above?
India LPG Crisis: Why Cooking Gas Supplies Are Falling
Frontlineby Mitali Mukherjee AI Summary·16d ago
Life in India has begun to resemble a Mortal Kombat video game, where attending to basic needs like cooking gas and fundamental rights like voting requires fighting layer after layer of...
The Blue Book and the Search for India’s Forgotten Histories
Frontlineby Anusua Mukherjee·16d ago
Dear Reader, I follow artist and writer Siddhesh Gautam (@bakeryprasad) on Instagram: his page is not only visually attractive, with posts containing his artworks, but is also a good source of...
When We Are Strangers: Bacha Khan, Gandhi and Non-Violence
Frontlineby Bharath Murthy·16d ago
Abdul Ghaffar Khan, aka Bacha Khan or “Frontier Gandhi”—the Pashtun leader who started the Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God) movement in 1929 along the lines of Gandhi’s satyagraha—is at the...
Museum of Word: Celebrating India’s Linguistic Diversity
Frontlineby Anjum Katyal·16d ago
Climbing the grand flight of stairs to the imposing pillared entrance of Belvedere House within the grounds of the National Library in Kolkata, standing at the threshold of the recently opened...
Telangana’s Special Intensive Revision Exposes Systemic Flaws and Mass Voter Exclusion Risks
Frontlineby Ayesha Minhaz AI Summary·16d ago
For nearly a month, 29-year-old Shahida’s (name changed) family has had a singular obsession: to gather enough documentation to make sure they remain on the final electoral roll of the ongoing...
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