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How does Kumbalangi Nights reinvent masculinity on screen?
At a time when mainstream cinema still profits from masculine chest-thumping (consider the endless parade of pan-Indian “mass” films), “Kumbalangi Nights” chooses instead to slip into the backwaters, listening to crickets, nurturing silences.
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How Regional Cinema Is Reframing India’s Sociopolitical Consciousness?
Away from the spotlight of commercial gloss, regional cinema in India is reshaping sociopolitical consciousness—with nuance, resistance, and an unflinching gaze at the margins.
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How India’s Oral Storytelling Traditions Preserve and Transmit Cultural Knowledge
In an age where information is cheap but wisdom scarce, these traditions whisper a subversive question: What if true preservation lies not in fossilizing the past but in letting it breathe, mutate, and dance on the tongues of the living? The answer, perhaps, is etched in the fading echo of a grandmother’s tale, or the…
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7 Forgotten Indian Folk Art Forms You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
If you haven’t heard of these art forms, blame geography—and possibly our education system.
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How Does Tarun Majumdar’s Shriman Prithviraj Still Speak to Class, Childhood & Colonial Hangovers?
Tarun Majumdar’s Shriman Prithviraj (1973) is a film that refuses to age, much like the stubborn idealism of its adolescent protagonist, Rashiklal Mukherjee, whose self‑bestowed title of “Prithviraj” becomes a metaphor for resistance against the absurdities of class hierarchies, colonial residues, and the bittersweet tyranny of growing up.
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