In the wake of the controversy over Wendy Doniger’s book on Hinduism, issues about responsibility and consequence under Indian law need to be borne in mind.
Postscript
Postscript
With the death of the Nobel prize-winning Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a solitude has descended on the world of literature.
While both the classic Mother India and the recent Gulaab Gang may be seen as examples of the Hindi “village film”, there is a world of difference in their treatment.
Nirbhaya is a play that allows women to overcome, in a raw and untamed manner, a history of silent suffering at the hands of depraved men.
Escape from civilisation may be an option for characters in films like Highway but lesser mortals will have to confront their own demons right here and now.
For a writer in Kuwait to produce creative works in English is a political act that enhances, not impairs, the Arab identity.
What was once the Ottoman empire, later made modern by Ataturk, founder and first president of the republic of Turkey, is a traveller’s find.
The unexpected entry of a parakeet into the apartment and the lives of a family in Mumbai shows that humans and animals can live and let live.
The crisis in literature and the arts in Portugal points to the disconnect between transmission of knowledge and reality.
As the old gives way to the new in Kodagu, those who grew up in erstwhile Coorg rue the changes that tourism has brought to the region.
Enjoying literature for its own sake often becomes difficult as fiction’s windows change even as the landscape of the world remains familiar.
Down the ages, literary works have often used woman as a spicy condiment, eventually devaluing and debasing her natural role, even if unintentionally.
Burdened by a financial crunch and lack of patronage, the theatre scene in Punjab is dismal even for an award-winning director.
