by Dolly Vyas-Ahuja | Jul 22, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
Dolly Vyas-Ahuja is making a documentary film. Why? Because she can never forget the evening of April 16, 2014. She had just returned from walking the dog and was surfing the net for a recipe when she heard the speech that caused an awakening. In “The Best Speech...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Jul 15, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
The hot sams (samosas) are for Rs. 4. It’s not a canteen. It’s a cafe. At the cafe at St. Stephen’s college in Delhi University, you might be asked to zap the chap (chapati). Denizens of this elite college can be heard discussing the G-jams (gulab jamuns) in Carol...
by Reena Kapoor | Jun 24, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
Saw Ritesh Batra’s Photograph and loved it! Although it is indeed slow as molasses and if you thought his Lunch Box (which I loved) was too slow for your taste then perhaps best to not bother with this one. But I loved its lyrical, less-is-more minimalist...
by Meera Prahlad | Jun 17, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
Frameline43, the forty-third San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival is slated to be held between June 20 and June 30, 2019. For eleven days, this film festival is bringing nearly 150 gay-themed movies from various countries to SF. Frameline43 also offers...
by Tanmay Chowdhary | Jun 6, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Films
I was born in India, in a colonial house left by the Muslim tenants who would move to Pakistan as a result of the Partition, a subsequent byproduct of Indian Independence from the Britishers. I lived in a house with twenty other family members and I shared a room with...
by Hamida Parkar | Jun 3, 2019 | Films
A South Asian writing-directing duo, Gayatri Bajpai and Nirav Bhakta, scored the first prize for their work Halwa at the HBO Asian Pacific American Visionaries short film competition. This is the first-ever South Asian film to have won an honor or been included in the...
