Yes, sex change has happened in A.M.M.A. Patriarchs are replaced by women who have deeply internalised patriarchy. WCC-dissing Menon and Dileep supporter Parameswaran. They haven’t changed spots as of today. A change for the worse? The survivor’s battle is getting lonelier. 😔

Italian Cultural Centre is being rapped on the knuckles for hosting historian Romila Thapar. What the world must be thinking of our illiteracy and intolerance

Read this thread by Article 14 and all the articles in it. The suffocation of truth-telling journalists will ultimately destroy whatever is left of our country.

The 1975 Hindi blockbuster Sholay now unwittingly underlines the degradation of India’s landscape over the last five decades and the representation of gender, caste and Muslims in Bollywood, writes Anna MM Vetticad himalmag.com/culture/sholay…

You can't have a second Nehru. We had nothing back then, the entire budget of India was just ₹500 crores. Those who can't do even a single press conference criticize Nehru who used to sit in the Parliament during every single session. —Maj Gen C.S Dhawan (Retired)

Sedition charges agnst Siddharth, KaranThapar is shocking, and yet it's just another eg of how this govt punishes those who do their jobs honestly. We must protest this vindictive move Press Club Of India Indian Women’s Press Corps Mumbai Press Club

International Press Institute (IPI) calls on Indian authorities to drop Section 152 charges against The Wire and founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan ipi.media/india-ipi-call…

When Sholay came out, 28 years had passed since the British left India. The romance and charm of freedom were waning by then, as generations who had not fought for it became dominant in the country’s electorate and administration, writes Anna MM Vetticad himalmag.com/culture/sholay…

The Hindi film industry, which gave us Sholay in 1975, has reflected India’s dramatic post-2014 socio-political downturn. In the past 11 years, the makers of Hindi cinema have jumped on to the right-wing bandwagon in droves, writes Anna MM Vetticad himalmag.com/culture/sholay…

+100 In solidarity with you, Siddharth and #KaranThapar ✊ #JournalismIsNotACrime

A study of the boundaries that Sholay breached, and the ones that it left alone, point to a simultaneous downslide in the representation of caste and Hindu-Muslim equations in Hindi cinema, with a mixed report card on gender, writes Anna MM Vetticad himalmag.com/culture/sholay…

In Sholay, while men were the prime movers of the plot, the primary women characters were written with depth and with an inclination towards progressive portrayals. But Ramesh Sippy faltered with Radha and Basanti's graphs, writes Anna MM Vetticad himalmag.com/culture/sholay…

Shazia Iqbal's #Dhadak2 is a rare contemporary Hindi film with caste tyranny as its focus. Conviction shines through each scene in this gripping remake of Mari Selvaraj's Tamil hit, #PariyerumPerumal. #TriptiiDimri, #SiddhantChaturvedi, Priyank Tiwari are lovely. So is the film.

A government officer stood his ground and refused to be bullied by a Hindutva organisation in Uttar Pradesh's Mau district, alleging a government land was encroached by a local from the minority community. Mau city magistrate Brijendra Kumar was in no mood to entertain the whims

In the arena of caste, Sholay occupies a middle ground between films that highlighted the exploitation of disadvantaged castes up to the 1990s, and the post-1990s erasure by most Hindi cinema of the very existence of the caste system, writes Anna MM Vetticad himalmag.com/culture/sholay…

When Sholay came out, 28 years had passed since the British left India. The romance and charm of freedom were waning by then, as generations who had not fought for it became dominant in the country’s electorate and administration, writes Anna MM Vetticad himalmag.com/culture/sholay…

In Sholay, while men were the prime plot movers, the women were written with depth and an inclination towards progressive portrayals. But Ramesh Sippy faltered with Radha and Basanti's graphs, writes Anna MM Vetticad himalmag.com/culture/sholay…