A promise kept with all dignity, honesty and respect. The oath taken by the maverick master S.S. Rajamouli in BAAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING is finally ‘concluded’ with great accomplishment that fulfills the expectations and restores our faith in dreaming big and larger than life. Reinforcing the power of stories inspired fromContinue Reading
The art of dying gracefully and knowing your near and dear ones the most when you are going to ‘stay forever’.. MUKTI BHAWAN (HOTEL SALVATION – English title) is heart warming, funny, gentle and a rare take on life and relationship by the 25-years-old young helmer Shubhashish Bhutiani (his previousContinue Reading
by Ram Puniyani Kandhalmal: Introspection for Initiative for Justice 2007-2015 by Vrinda Grover and Saumya Uma; Media House and United Christian Forum Delhi; 2017. Violence is the bane of the Indian society and a manifest agenda of the communal forces which thrive on divisive politics and polarisation. This is partContinue Reading
By: Vangmayi Parakala Raghu Rai already has three books on Mother Teresa to his credit. The first was published in 1996, a year before her death, a second in 2003 and the third in 2005. Now, six months after her canonization by the Vatican as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, RaiContinue Reading
By: Srivatsan Each time Mani Ratnam comes up with something unique, it’s a celebration for cinephiles across the state of Tamil Nadu. The euphoria is so much that the entire industry wants Mani Ratnam to emerge as a winner. Set against the backdrop of the Kargil war, Kaatru Veliyidai isContinue Reading
The Pope has a message of joy and hopeContinue Reading
At 129 minutes William “Bill” Condon’s Beauty and the Beast may appear to the common masses as a classic told, Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont; and retold, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991) and yet again re-told (2017); but for a collector like me and manyContinue Reading
Reviewed by: Mohsin Khan Hardly a day passes without the media reporting some violent barbarity somewhere in the world being committed in the name of Islam. Today, there is an urgent need for popularising an alternate understanding of Islam, one rooted in a commitment to peace, nonviolence and inter-community harmony.Continue Reading
BY DANI GUERRERO From Georgetown’s cocurricular student theater group Nomadic Theatre comes the exceptional “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.” Based on the play by Pulitzer prize-winning Stephen Adly Guirgis, this Production follows the appeal trial of Judas Iscariot’s damnation. In downtown purgatory, an ambitious young lawyer by the nameContinue Reading
Divided into nine parts, and free of any narrative baggage, How I Became A Tree could also be read from anywhere in betweenContinue Reading