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Nov 11, 2017 · Mother India in 1957. Mother India was the most expensive film made in India within the mainstream Hindi film industry. It also earned the highest returns at the box office among all Hindi films released around that time. Adjusted for inflation, Mother India still ranks among all-time box office hits.
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 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.
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.
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 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:
Aug 10, 2016 · The vision of overwhelming India from Aurobindo (6) is like the “India Shining” campaign done during Pramod Mahajan’s and Vajpayee’s time. The passages of the draft here force a “rising India” sentiment which must be inculcated among every Indians.
Aug 1, 2019 · Hindu and Muslim communalism. Jawaharlal Nehru. August 1, 2019. With Independence Day right around the corner, the Indian Cultural Forum will be doing a series on the ideas that built India. From national movements to regional resistances, there have been multiple ideologies and leaders who’ve shaped the country’s desire for sovereignty and ...
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.
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.
