The Partition haunted Ritwik Ghatak all his life as did the subject of refugees. He identified himself with the pain and anguish of refugees who lost their entity and had to readjust in the alien environment. In his book, Cinema and I, Ghatak had said: “Cinema, to me, is a means of expressing my anger at the sorrows and sufferings of my people”
Though made in 1988, Tamas needs to be screened again, over all channels, since the message of the story is perhaps far more relevant now than it was then.
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING EYE-POPPING? PRESENTING DEAD BLONDE ROCKING!! by Monojit Lahiri Advertising is the art of seducing and enticing the unguarded to buy products & services that sell images & dreams, aspirations, hopes & desires … Today, more than ever in a hugely competitive market where consumers are spoilt for choices, the challenge for the…
by Avijit Dutt The most telling image is of this towering intellectual holding up a poster of him being an Urban Naxal too! Protesting the arrests of the innocent Social workers and intellectuals. At the meeting pushing for an enquiry after Gauri Lankesh’s murder he looked more saddened by the circumstances than his own state…
by Karan Tripathi ‘I look on bad conscience as a serious illness to which man was forced to succumb by the pressure of the most fundamental of all changes which he experienced, – that change whereby he finally found himself imprisoned within the confines of society and peace’ (GoM : II 16). Where do we…