Can you land up in jail for viewing a torrent site in India or not? Yesterday, we heard that a jail term as well as a fine of Rs 3,00,000 was the penalty for a visit to a blocked URL, including a torrent site. Today, some reports said no, you won’t be jailed just because […]
Khyentse Norbu is an iconic figure in Bhutan. Bhutanese Lama and internationally acclaimed film director’s latest film ‘Hema Hema: Sing me a song while I wait, premiered in Switzerland recently. It is Norbu’s fourth feature. The monk’s association with film began during the Bhutan shoot for Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1993 film “Little Buddha.” Norbu at the […]
Patna: Come September, and the fifth annual Washington DC South Asian Film Festival will kick off. Indo-Canadian director-scriptwriter Deepa Mehta is expected to inaugurate the event. Other eminent film personalities expected to attend are director Jeffrey Brown, actress Seema Biswas, actor Rajit Kapur, Rati Agnihotri, Palomi Ghosh, and Pakistani actress Amna Ilyas and Pakistani director […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation petition seeking a complete ban on messaging platform WhatsApp. Well, that’s one more attention seeking chappie being shown his place, but this entire episode does smell somewhat like a basket of not-so-fresh sardines! A Bench led by Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur asked an […]
The Tharu tribe inhabits areas along the right from Uttarkhand, to Uttar Pradesh and arts of Nepal, and about 3.5 lakh Tharus live in the Champaran District of Bihar, in the areas bordering Nepal. Some people would want us to believe that the Tharu tribe originated from the Thar desert region of Rajasthan. Anthropologically, it’s evident […]
May begins with workers’ day followed closely by Press Freedom Day, but working journalists are anything but secure in the hinterland in India. On May 10, journalists of Chhatisgarh will be protesting in Delhi against the State sponsored intimidation and violence against them. Chhattisgarh continues to be one of the most dangerous places for journalists […]
New Delhi: 007 cannot kiss for too long in India, thanks to the dictates of chief censor Pahlaj Nihalani had also “unofficially” reviewed the film “Spectre” and suggested the cutting the length of the kissing scenes! In yet another ‘nanny act’, Indian censors have shortened the lengths of two kissing scenes in the latest James […]
BOMBAY: The bluff has been called. The tunnel vision of fundamentalist groups like the Secular Christian Forum is not the voice of Christians or the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has clarified that it is not seeking a ban on the play ‘Agnes of God’ although it is offended by its promotional material. The theatre […]
Is the social and multi-cultural fabric of India being undermined by a socio-political- religious nexus supervising a cadre of communalised grassroots workers who constantly attack and threaten the liberal Hindus and the religious or ethnic minorities? A report compiled by human rights activists says the past year has seen an increase in the number of […]
This TV series is superbly vicious: that’s a review in a nutshell. Sometime in 2013, fresh from his latest turn as Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies,Sir Ian McKellen headed to the small screen. He’s moved in with Sir Derek Jacobi in the ITV sitcom ‘Vicious.’ The British acting icons play partners Freddie and Stuart, […]
