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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“I Will Do It Again If I Have to”: the Poster Girl of Jamia Protests
On the afternoon of December 15, when Aysha Renna and her university buddies decided to join the march organised by students and locals near Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), Delhi, to protest the new Citizenship law, little did she realise that she would shortly be catapulted to national fame for her defiance and courage in the … Continue reading “I Will Do It Again If I Have to”: the Poster Girl of Jamia Protests
Memoir of a Kurdish Sniper Who Helped Stop the ISIS in Syria
IS FIRST NAME on his British passport is ‘Darren’ and his sniper name ‘Azad’. As a child from a Kurdish family who grew up in Iran in the 1980s, his parents used to call him ‘Sora’. Yes, we don’t know his real name yet, and we may never know. For his riveting book Long Shot, he … Continue reading Memoir of a Kurdish Sniper Who Helped Stop the ISIS in Syria
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