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Nov 11, 2017 · Introduction. Mother India (1957) completes sixty years this year. Produced and directed by Mehboob, famous for his social agenda films packaged with a lot of chutzpah, grandeur and melodrama, the film was assessed among the ten biggest hits in Indian cinema in the 20th century.
May 31, 2021 · The managerial task during the birth of cinema in colonial India was the construction of the identity of the Indian nation. A nation encompassing its own people, its ethno-cultures, its shared historicity. The knowledge production through cinema was devoted to this realm. The works of Dadasaheb Phalke and Himanshu Rai as early as the 1920s ...
Mar 11, 2022 · It is worth noting that in its landmark judgment in the case of Githa Hariharan vs. Reserve Bank of India (1999) the Supreme Court observed that the word ‘after’ should be interpreted as ‘in the absence of’, to include the cases of functional absence of the father, as opposed to limited interpretation of death of the father.
Mar 9, 2021 · If we compare Mother India with Fearless Nadia, while both stood for justice and were in service of the nation, Nadia had much more agency and sexual freedom. In the 1960s, social films are replaced by action and romance films. What is significant in the 1960s is the emergence of a binarized femininity: the good woman/bad woman or Sita/Gita.
Mar 6, 2020 · There is the same sadness on the face of Mother India, Daggers are free to plunge into bosoms, Death is free to drift upon corpses. And Majaz said quietly: All these whose hands are dripping with blood, They were the very messiahs, the Khizrs. From across the border Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi informed us that all was not well there, either:
Jun 27, 2023 · Wendy Doniger. June 27, 2023. Wendy Doniger’s Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts ( Speaking Tiger, 2023) explores gender and sexual identities in Hindu, Buddhist, and Tantric mythologies. It takes us from the union of ‘mother earth’ and ‘father sky’ in the Rig Veda to Shiva’s burning of Kama, the god of desire.
Aug 23, 2023 · M K Raghavendra. August 23, 2023. Cinema and historical trauma. The partition of India in 1947 was the most cataclysmic event in the modern history of South Asia. It is estimated that half a million people lost their lives in the ensuing riots and nearly fifteen million were forced to abandon their homes and become refugees.
Aug 18, 2017 · ICF Team. August 18, 2017. Image courtesy: Sabrang. On January 3, 1831, 176 years ago Savitribai Phule, arguably India’s first woman teacher and forgotten liberator was born. With the first school for girls from different castes that she set up in Bhidewada, Pune (the seat of Brahmanism) Krantijyoti Savitribai as she is reverentially known ...
Mar 21, 2023 · Pankaja. Vasanth Kannabiran. March 21, 2023. Vasanth Kannabiran’s Pankaja (Speaking Tiger, 2022) paints a vivid portrait of what it meant to be an upper-caste Hindu woman in India at the time. Pankaja’s life and the lives of her women friends and family members are all shaped by the institution of marriage; limited by the norm of wifely duty.
Mar 10, 2022 · The Life of a Great Marxist: Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) Born in Muzaffarnagar, in British India, Aijaz read extensively from an early age and allowed his mind to drift out of the qasba of his childhood. His father shared some radical books with him, which helped him to understand the world outside the doab region of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the ...
