Author Archive: Sarahana

Songs of Rebellion

Whether history repeats itself or not, it certainly gets longer. The burden of its weight deepens with every generation, which must understand human existence in light of this ever-expanding, complicated past. It is again history that informs us that rebellion has constituted human experience for as long as love, creation and violence have. More (6)»

Lost Boys of Sudan

The world might as well be divided into two kinds of people: those who believe in the American dream and those who’ve found it to be no less a fairy tale than the pumpkin that turned into Cinderella’s coach. Lost Boys of Sudan follows the journey of two young men from a refugee camp in Kenya to the glorious land of the United States. More (5)»

Arundhati Roy on the dubious trial of Mohammad Afzal

Mohammad Afzal, who voluntarily surrendered to India’s Border Security Force without ever having actually practiced as a militant in Kashmir, has been given three life sentences and a double death sentence for his alleged involvement in the Dec 13 2001 attack on the Indian parliament. In a column published on Guardian’s website, Arundhati Roy lists thirteen compelling questions that threaten to expose the Indian government of “complicity, collusion, involvement.” More (2)»

Lunacy: Svankmajer’s political allegory

72-year-old Czech surrealist filmmaker Jan Svankmajer is best known for his remarkably intricate and profound stop-motion animations. Inspiring Tim Burton to the Brothers Quay, his cast has notably featured an interesting mix of objects such as food, clay models, animal body parts, and pieces of meat. More (2)»

Rally in NYC against Israeli aggression

On July 29 protesters met at Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn and marched across the Brooklyn bridge. More (29)»

Democracy in Crisis

Asking what was the right thing to do in a democracy, in which an armed dissent is crushed by military power and unarmed dissent simply ridiculed and brushed aside, Arundhati Roy confessed her depleting faith in democracy itself. More (7)»

Gore’s movie gives a push to Neo-Greens

Al Gore should’ve been the right person to contest against George Bush for American presidency, but following a dubious defeat, he has at last emerged as the right person to challenge America on the issue of global warming. He introduces himself as the former Next President of America, but wastes no time in plunging into what is most important to him: saving the environment. More (18)»

Deepa Mehta’s tale of Indian widows

Conflict is the gut from which a story may be expected to pour forth. Storytellers who hail from cultures and histories of visible devastation rarely suffer from a shortage of struggles to spin from. More (20)»

An appetite for success

Around an impressive spread of Thai delights prepared by cooks in Kathmandu were seated the families of two men. To the disadvantage of onlookers and waiters who never offered it on the menu, a scuffle over the definition of success would be the main course that night. More (41)»

Strictly ceremonial

Pushpa put her face an inch away from the off-white wall and spread her hand slowly against it. Her skin was terribly wrinkled, her steady short fingers beneath the valleys, hills, river beds, puddles, and cracks of her aged skin. The whole place was damp, she decided, from days of sobbing her mistress had engaged in. The vapor of grief had completely soaked the palace. More (27)»

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