by Geetika Pathania Jain | May 15, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
An interview with Ritesh Batra, the writer and director of Photograph, where he kindly assures Geetika Pathania Jain three times that she is not being too fanciful, and discusses the characters and their motivations: Geetika Pathania Jain: Thank you for this exclusive...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | May 14, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Culture
Mira Nair’s 1998 film Salaam Bombay! firmly established her in the pantheon of great film-makers. The film’s gritty realism can be seen as the legitimate cinematic ancestor to contemporary preoccupation with slumdogs. Several of Nair’s recent works have dealt with...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | May 1, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Culture
Happy May Day for all those who labor! From our archives, a book review of “Pink Sari Revolution: a Tale of Women and Power.” Sampat Pal emerges as a courageous grass-roots organizer of woman power in one of the most lawless and least developed districts...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Apr 22, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Culture
Even After All this time The sun ️ never says to the Earth “You owe me.” Look What happens With a love like that. It lights the whole sky. Hafiz (1315-1390) Photo credit: Geetika Pathania Jain, Ph.D. Geetika Pathania Jain, Ph.D. is Culture and Media Editor at India...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Apr 8, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Culture
A decade or so ago, when cell phones began appearing in streets and cafes, I witnessed the change from the balloons of inner thought to the blurbs of the spoken word. This was a bit scary because it became incontestable how shallow we truly are — “then she said, then...
