CINEMA / INDIA

London’s Indian Film Festival

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The festival included acclaimed documentaries, shorts, features as well as screenings of some of the country’s recent classics. This year’s festival also included a live interview with the legendary Aparna Sen.

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CINEMA / INDIA

The Last Film Show: The successful passion of a child

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How do you recreate the joy of seeing your very first film? Film director Pan Nalin from India, manages to do just this in his masterful feature, The Last Film, premiering at this year’s Tribeca film festival. Nalin’s film is both a stunning love letter to cinema as well as an insightful portrait of a life moulded by a single childhood event, that child’s first visit to a movie theatre.

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INDIA / LITERATURE

PARTITION VOICES

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PARTITION VOICES By Beverly Andrews   Almost all countries throughout the world have experienced at least one defining historical moment which in many ways defines generations to come.  For those which have […]

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ART

Land by Rewati Shahani

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Rewati Shahani was born and brought up in Mumbai in a family directly affected by Partition. The topics of migration and place have been constant themes in her work.

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LITERATURE

Why is India still lagging behind China?

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Zee JFL “annual” festival – London   By Beverly Andrews   The Asian literary festival, Zee JLF, returned to London for a sixth successive year. This wonderful festival offers British residents a welcome […]

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INDIA / VIDEO

¡QUÉ LOCURA! EL RODAJE DE #theworldscraziestdancevideo

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Durante esos minutos de rodaje, ellos tenían la impresión de estar bajo los focos, sentían que importaban, que el mundo exterior, del que algunos solo tienen una ligera comprensión, les miraba.

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INDIA / VIDEO

How crazy is that! Filming #theworldscraziestdancevideo

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For those few minutes of filming they felt like they were in the spotlight, that they really mattered, that the world out there – about which many have only a very sketchy understanding – was looking at them.

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PHOTO

Where are you going?

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This exhibition is a startlingly beautiful portrait of Maharaj’s own physical and spiritual journey through six different countries including Poland, India, England, France, Italy and Finland.

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