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Closely Watched Trains: The humour in Bohumil Hrabals 1965 novella is a response to ruination
2+ hour, 33+ min ago (257+ words) But it was mostly the humour I returned to. The comedy of small people inside large systems. The rubber stamp on the wrong surface. The grandfather was walking in front of tanks with his hands outstretched. I had read it…...
Dhurandhar star Rakesh Bedi interview: "Good work will be recognised someday
15+ hour, 48+ min ago (1537+ words) The massive success of Aditya Dhar's Durandhar movies has given Rakesh Bedi's career a second wind. Bedi, who plays the wily politician Jameel Jamali, has a separate fanbase for his catchphrase "Baccha hai tu mera." The veteran of cinema, theatre…...
Watch: Hindi series "Lukkhe" explores rap, drugs and crime
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (70+ words) Scroll. in You are currently on the AMP version of Scroll The AMP version of Scroll does not offer all of our membership benefits. To unlock your full benefits, please switch to the main website. Just 0. 2% of readers pay for…...
One swallow / the earth remembers rain: Poems on shared experiences in late-stage capitalism
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (115+ words) Scroll. in I am the drop that echoes in the caves black throat, the salt that lingers after the wave has gone. I am the map of flame a moth circles. I am a prayer the glassblower cannot shape. I…...
Life tips the scales, every now and then: These poems are a eulogy to loss, grief and a new start
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (108+ words) Scroll. in You are currently on the AMP version of Scroll The AMP version of Scroll does not offer all of our membership benefits. To unlock your full benefits, please switch to the main website. We pledged our vows long,…...
Comics: Daddy is not sure how he and Shampoo became friends. But now their lives are changed forever
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (91+ words) Scroll. in You are currently on the AMP version of Scroll The AMP version of Scroll does not offer all of our membership benefits. To unlock your full benefits, please switch to the main website. Excerpted with permission from Shampoo…...
Start the week with a film: "The Third Man" is a first-rate game of lies and shadows
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (462+ words) Graham Greene's The Third Man was originally a screen treatment for a Carol Reed film. Greene and Reed had collaborated on the film The Fallen Idol in 1948. They teamed up again the following year for The Third Man, which Green…...
Bearing Witness to the Age: Poet Beh'et Necatigils grounded vision of Turkish modernism
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (267+ words) Whenever I wander the streets Schools cinemas shop fronts Each use up The old me's in me." Though rooted in the domestic, Necatigil's poetry is never insulated from history. His later poems show a stark awareness of modern civilisation's destructive…...
What shapes the designs of book covers in India?
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (1012+ words) There is no word for "design" in our Indian languages," says design historian Suchitra Balasubramanyan. The discourse, she points out, has been built almost entirely in English, shaped by upper-caste, upper-class practitioners and Western standards. So, when India"s readers…...
Raghu Rai (1942-2026): A keen observer of strategies of survival
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (632+ words) Rai's most memorable projects keep probing the question of calamity " natural, historical and political. He was a keen observer of the destitution of human life faced by displacement and the disappearance of destination. The camera frames and reframes the question…...