Kim Ki-duk, September 3, 2013 (Photo: Getty Images) The celebrated director’s films put the spotlight on the lives of lower classes and outcasts like never before in the country's history. They were replete with gore, violence and sex, but they also exposed our hypocrisies I had left the Kerala film festival circuit almost a decade … Continue reading The Brutal Honesty of Controversial Korean Filmmaker Kim Ki-duk (1960-2020)
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Stranded Nephew, Grounded Uncle: Two Indians in Covid-Hit Germany
Pratap Pillai is an Indian-origin engineer who has sailed the seven seas for decades, starting as a trainee engineer to finally being the chief engineer of merchant ships. He has always been trained to be ready for the worst-case scenario in the deep sea, even a shipwreck. For the past nine years, though, his propinquity … Continue reading Stranded Nephew, Grounded Uncle: Two Indians in Covid-Hit Germany
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