(Recommended by SI reader Boopalanj) Preoccupied as Indian film-makers are with regurgitating trash, the documentary as an art form is virtually absent in Bollywood or any of its smaller regional siblings. That’s odd when you know the cornucopia of material available to Indian film-makers. Given that the blighted land is rife with corruption, rampant cruelty, […]
Not merely a beautiful tragedy, Naagarahaavu (1972) is also a Kannada Cinemada Habba (a celebration of Kannada films). A classic on many levels, Naagarahaavu ranks among the finest Indian movies made in the 1970s. It’s that rare regional movie from India’s hinterlands where the acting, music and story jell, and join in unison to deliver […]
Recommended by SI reader chaitu1987 From the cesspool of Indian cinema arises every once in a while an aberration so splendid that it jolts even jaded moviegoers out of their stupor, pulls them up by the scruff of the neck and declares in a stentorian tone – see, this is the movie you’ve been waiting […]
A white New York City policeman shot and killed a black policeman as he was chasing a suspect (likely Hispanic going by the name) in the predominantly Hispanic Manhattan neighborhood of East Harlem last night. Both NYPD cops were in plainclothes. It’s not known if the white cop identified himself as a cop before shooting […]
One of the defining events of modern India over the last six decades is the decline of the Congress party as a force in Indian politics. Congress has seen an alarming decline in the total percentage of votes polled and the number of seats won in the Lok Sabha parliamentary elections. The decline of Congress […]
For over four decades now, it’s been apparent to all but the completely blind or the utterly senile that India is a blundering, doddering mockery of a democracy that has totally lost its way. A soft state, to borrow Gunnar Myrdal’s terminology, where the government institutions have become so weak and corruption so endemic that […]