Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Pat Garett and Billy the Kid’: The times maybe a changin’, but not me…

By Vivaan Shah
The images from Sam Peckinpah’s films seem to bubble and swell out of the filmmaker’s subconscious – what Freud called ‘the dream state’. Time and again he abandons chronological continuity and traditional film grammar in favour of the figurative. He has non-linear sequences instead of non-linear narratives, and deconstructs the very medium of cinema itself in an aggressively proto-Godardian fashion.

Ten years after Cyclone Aila, inhabitants of Sundarbans are still waiting for rehabilitation

By Mehebub Sahana
Badly planned and poorly executed policies related to fishing and honey-harvesting have also affected the livelihood of the local people. Economic desperation has resulted in large scale out-migration, particularly in last one decade.

‘The Yakuza’: A terribly underrated Sydney Pollack classic starring Robert Mitchum

By Murtaza Ali Khan
The Yakuza is a magnificent work of cinematic art that certainly deserves more attention than what it has received over the last four decades or so. The movie features one of Mitchum’s all-time great performances. It’s also one of the best films directed by the legendary Sydney Pollack.

Poem: Chatla Blues

By Goirick B
They are taking me away
from the banks of my Chatla
They are taking me away.

‘Bunny Lake is Missing’: The scariest film I have ever seen

By Vivaan Shah
His long takes and distant camera can be attributable to his tendency to view drama as a spatial whole from the point of view of a proscenium arch. To him all the world was half stage and half podium and whole part auditorium with the curtains drawn across our eyes, blindfolding us from the ultimate truth.

Blacklight: Anarchy in the Afternoon (Short Story)

By Tanushree Ghosh
‘That’s why it takes you all forever. Doing your chores while clients wait.’ Meena’s fingers were now frantically styling through Reetu’s hair, relaxing her. ‘What did you have for lunch? Beef?’ Reetu continued.

A Quranic perspective on technological advancements

By Fathah Abdussalam Kodag
By mentioning the miracles of the Prophets, the Quran shows the ultimate goal of scientific and technological developments, and specifies their final aims. It urges man forward toward those aims. Just as the past is the field for the seeds of the future, and mirror to its potential picture, the future is the time to reap the harvest of the past life and mirror to the actual situation.

Art Work: Mob Pleasure

By Jyotsna Dwivedi
It is at 4 am in the morning every other day now,
When the mob birds, mob cows, mob men and women roam on this land.
Those birds sit on bloody bodies, bathe in their blood, feel giddy with excitement and erection.

Mental health and addiction: A conversation with psychiatrist Dr. Bharati Dattatray Patil

By Rimli Bhattacharya
Millions suffer from mental health but feel scared to spell out for the stigma attached to it. I have been counseling for years and have come across cases who couldn’t get cured without the intervention of a professional psychiatrist. In this interview, I speak to Dr. (Mrs) Bharati Dattatray Patil on issues of mental health and addiction.

Book Review: Sumana Roy’s ‘Missing’

By Suranjana Choudhury
The beauty of her narration lies not in unnecessary elaboration. The details are necessary because through the exterior Roy tells us about the interior worlds of characters. The action is as much internal as it is external. Readers will appreciate that this simultaneity serves to introduce an interesting order to a series of thoughts and experiences.

The Invisible Muslim: dissent, media and the crisis of secularism in India

By Roshni Sengupta
The death of dissent of the media therefore seems on the ascendance, while the invisibility of the marginalized communities – especially that of the Muslim – is enhanced by the failure of the media to adequately reflect their social, economic, and political reality.

Poem: The other side calling

By Sunil Sharma
in order to have a sense of the totality,
we must tumble down a rabbit’s hole or
enter a Looking-glass room on our own
‘cause there is always that side calling out
an adventurer to explore!

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