Loved Sumanth Bhat's #Mithya (Kannada, 2023), a thoughtful, intelligent and empathetic film about a child holding his own amidst a cascade of tragedies. Review. filmcompanion.in/reviews/kannad…

I have a few small plans, hopes and aspirations personally for 2025, but nothing that I want more than for Palestine to be free - from the river to the sea. The ultimate defeat of the Zion1st monster is essential to heal humanity and halt our terminal decline as a species.

Indian Express reducing a journalist to a youtuber is what's wrong with the legacy media today. There are millions of Sukesh working across India who bring the best of stories from remotest parts and journos from bigger cities,organizations have built their career on such stories

How do you begin to write a tribute to a journalist, a friend, a brother? How do you describe him when nothing really contains him? The first time I met Mukesh Chandrakar was in December 2015, weeks after I had landed in Chhattisgarh as the Indian Express reporter there. (1/18)

Thousands of Maruti Suzuki workers in North India demanding permanent employment, equal pay for equal work, and an end to the practice of hiring workers as apprentices on low pay among other things. Indian media covering Maha Kumbh instead.

Saif Ali Khan ke liye 20 teams. But for a journalist, the police couldn't even find his phone's last location, because they didn’t want to. Justice for Journalist #MukeshChandrakar

It's instructive that someone being denied a visa to visit their ailing mother gives her so much satisfaction. Cruelty is such a core element of their ideology.

I have been thinking about Hemali Vadalia’s poignant painting, ‘Rekha (oil on linen, 2024) since I encountered it yesterday

A woman dies, and before dying gives a proper declaration that her monstrous husband brutally r@ped her, leading to her hospitalization. She then dîed in the hospital due to a *perforated rectum*. Her husband r@ped and kílled her, and the court set him free. Her déath, her

The working-class culture of self-education began to die when governments and corporations realized that educated people are a threat to big business. It's not an accident. They want a world where the rich read books while the rest of us are hypnotized by devices.

Scholars arguing for non-biased history do not glorify Aurangzeb. They are not court historians. Btw, have you thought about the origins & contexts of ‘collective memory’? How certain histories create ‘heroes’ & ‘villains’? Why care when you can be a WhatsApp history uncle!

Wrote about #Rekhachithram (Malayalam, 2025): dhruvam.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/how…

Artist Nikhil Chopra and HH Art Spaces have share their curatorial vision for the art event's sixth edition that will open in December 2025 indianexpress.com/article/lifest…

It's truly shocking what a literate culture we had a century ago. Millions of working-class people reading Austen, Sophocles, Thucydides. The decline in literacy is the result of a concerted attack by the rich on the lower classes to disempower us. You have to resist by reading.

Double.

News, personal: Chicago Tribune has eliminated the post of film critic. This left me two options: wait for a newsroom reassignment or take the buyout. I took the buyout. Time for something new, somewhere else. Exit column later this week. (1/3)

Behind Lokah’s ₹30-crore success: Leveraging cutting-edge digital filmmaking and collaborative work, the superhero fantasy proves why Malayalam cinema continues to thrive on challenges. Aswathy Gopalakrishnan writes: thehindu.com/entertainment/…

Wrote a piece on the production of #Lokah for The Hindu. Thank you, Dominic Arun, Santhy Balachandran Santhy (शांति), Kalyani Priyadarshan Kalyani Priyadarshan, Tovino, Nimish Ravi, and Syam Pushkaran for sharing insights on how Malayalam film industry keeps making its pocket-sized wonders

Retired professor VK Tripathi leaves his home in India’s New Delhi every day to hand out flyers about Israel's genocide in Gaza. Despite criticism and confrontations, he says he won’t stop speaking out against injustice.