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"Why Do They Bomb Us?"
Four-year-old Salma often wakes up late at night crying violently. She stares at the smoke of the bombing until it fades away and asks. \"People died?\"
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January 11, 2024
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"The Sky Seems to be Weeping"
Haya Abu Nasser, a human rights activist and writer from Gaza, was slated to depart for Malaysia on October 17 to study international relations. These days, she is yearning for a cup of coffee and the routine melody of life
3 min |
January 11, 2024
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CAPTURING War-torn Gaza
Representing and reporting the truth about the atrocities in Gaza could have been a redemptive moment for photojournalism
10+ min |
January 11, 2024
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The Dream of Peace
Iranian-French photographer Manoocher Deghati arrives in Palestine in 1994 to capture key moments such as the return of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. In Eyewitnessed, Ursula Janssen chronicles Deghati's perilious journey
10+ min |
January 11, 2024
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The 'Inner Monastery'
Author, scholar and thinker Hussein Barghouthi, diagnosed with lymphoma, returns to his childhood countryside near Ramallah in Palestine after thirty years in 'exile'. Among the Almond Trees is a poignant, lyrical, philosophical reflection on life and death, art and politics, love and hope. This excerpt is about a monastery atop a mountain he used to visit as a child.
4 min |
January 11, 2024
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"We are the Living Dead of Gaza"
Every day since October 7, Zainab AI Ghonaimy has woken up in her home in the besieged Gaza City and the first thing she has done is check her Internet connection. It has become an essential means of survival for Zainab, who has been using it to broadcast her daily journal to the world.
10+ min |
January 11, 2024
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A Rose Shoulders Up
Don't ever be surprised to see a rose shoulder up among the ruins of the house: This is how we survived.
5 min |
January 11, 2024
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Challenge Of The Virtual
Colour brought us closer to lived physical 'meatspace' reality, but virtual production can very easily take us away from it
4 min |
January 01, 2024
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RECOVERY Diary
Of Sickness and Health|A Foreign Country|The Possibility of Healing
3 min |
January 01, 2024
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Poetic Faith
The realness of the house on screen
5 min |
January 01, 2024
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The Narrowing Window
While the climate change conference marks the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era, India will have to urgently find ways to move away from coal. Securing finance for new projects is going to be a big challenge
5 min |
January 01, 2024
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Realty Overview of 2023
India's real estate sector has shown remarkable resilience in the past year, showcasing the adaptability across various segments with residential, especially luxurious and premium housing, leading the way.
6 min |
January 01, 2024
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Ladakh Wants MORE
While the Union Territory has welcomed the abrogation of Article 370, it is demanding Sixth Schedule status and full statehood
4 min |
January 01, 2024
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Parallel Parking in Downtown Srinagar
\"Kashmir was constitutionally up for grabs. 'Buy the exotic Kashmiri land' and 'marry the apple-cheeked Kashmiri women' was the refurbished two-point policy of settling in Kashmir\"
5 min |
January 01, 2024
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A Constitutional BACKSLIDING?
The judgement of the Supreme Court in the Article 370 case heralds an disconnect between ever-increasing constitutional law and constitutional reality in post-colonial India
5 min |
January 01, 2024
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IAS Sachin Kurve Unveils Uttarakhand's Sustainable Tourism Roadmap
Shri Sachin Kurve, the Secretary of Tourism and CEO of Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board, discusses Uttarakhand's focus on sustainable tourism, adventure initiatives, and community involvement to preserve nature and culture
2 min |
January 01, 2024
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A Subliminal LOSS
Over the last decade, the filmmaking and film-watching cultures have transitioned from celluloid to digital. The new tech has provided us several gains, but shouldn't we also pause to consider what we've lost?
10 min |
January 01, 2024
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HOMO TECHNOLOGICUS
Cinema and technology, a besotted couple across the arc of industrial modernity, is headed for a split
5 min |
January 01, 2024
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Foreign Exchange
Virtual production technology eliminates the need for Bollywood filmmakers to travel abroad. But what do foreign locations really mean, socially and politically?
10+ min |
January 01, 2024
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Immersive & INTERACTIVE
Much like how cinema changed the lives of people in the previous generation, video games are doing the same for the current generation
3 min |
January 01, 2024
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Transforming CINEMA
In a few years, virtual production won't be qualified as such; it will simply be called production. Because that's how production will happen.
5 min |
January 01, 2024
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Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief
I know the black cat was not there. I know you weren’t there either. This is a love letter to realness in the times of everything virtual. Like virtual production.
5 min |
January 01, 2024
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The Politics of SOCIAL ENGINEERING
By appointing a mix of Adivasi, OBC, Dalit, and Brahmin leaders as CMS and deputy CMs, the BJP is keeping a close eye on the 2024 General Elections
5 min |
January 01, 2024
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A 370⁰ Turn
The recent Supreme Court verdict upholding the central government's move to abrogate Article 370 of the Indian Constitution impacts Kashmir and its people deeply
10+ min |
January 01, 2024
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State of the State
On August 6, 2019, the Government of India revoked the special status, or autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir. A lockdown followed. Internet connection was cut off.
6 min |
January 01, 2024
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Residual Memory
AS we lose the uniqueness of our urban visual history, with the soulless replication of commercial spaces at the cost of hundreds of beautiful old architectural landmarks, we also lose the stories of the people and their human relationships with those spaces.
5 min |
January 01, 2024
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Digital DREAMSCAPES
Virtual production has made a big impact on Hollywood. Will this technological tsunami also wash over Indian cinema, drowning out conventional filmmaking?
10+ min |
January 01, 2024
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A Perfect Invocation that Evoked the Essence of Essence
For decades, BN Goswamy gently held our finger, and walked in search of an 'essence of essence... a pure bliss
4 min |
December 11,2023
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The Origins of Evil
When the fire threatens to raze us, there's just one tune pervading our mind, body, and soul: that morality isn't a choice as much as a privilege
8 min |
December 11,2023
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A Brave Vote for Change
Despite a boycott call by the Maoists, villagers in Naxal-infested Bastar of Chhattisgarh turned out to vote in large numbers
9 min |