In our real-world cultures, we find it difficult to accept mothers cast in any role other than nourishing and the schism between good and bad mothers is maintained on-screen. Like popular cinema, politics too must appeal to a mass base and is similarly hampered by a lack of nuance
In marked contrast to these Hindi films, Aattam reveals the complexity of group dynamics (we may interpret them as “industry” dynamics too) when colleagues must act to disempower a powerful man.
🔴 Annie Zaidi writes: This is why countries like modern India adopted a Constitution that, first and foremost, described the shape of our freedom — our fundamental rights
In liberating ourselves from ignorance and falsehood, we may find that exclusions via touch only handicap our society. We gain nothing except a bloated sense of self and a mindless fear of losing what we have
Lockdown Reading is a series where authors will enlist the books they are reading (or not) during this time. This week, Annie Zaidi shares her experience.
