Books & Arts

The Dark Knight: Gotham and America’s War on Terror

A vast majority of the reviews have revolved around Ledger’s performance, rightfully so, already creating an Oscar buzz. But it has also sparked another interesting conversation. More (2)»

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 (5)»

Zavet (Promise Me This)

Every now and then, the world of cinema offers select, reclusive film-makers whose films we await in wonder, whether due to the redolence of their cult status, or the breadth of their previous work. Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica seems to fall somewhere in between. More»

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»

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)»

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 (19)»

Interview with Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali is an author, filmmaker, historian and political campaigner. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review. Born and raised in Lahore, he was educated at Oxford and was active in the New Left of the 1960s. He became a major spokesperson for anti-imperialism and remains a critic of American foreign policy. His latest book is Rough Music: Blair Bombs Baghdad London Terror published by Verso. More (42)»

Swedish shirt for Nepalis

Sweden-based “magazine” company T-post sends its subscribers a t-shirt instead of a magazine for each issue. The design for each shirt is based on news that has caught the editorial team’s attention. For the latest issue, the editors selected Nepali’s current affairs as the theme. The team’s idea was to give “a secret message” to Nepalis since only those who can read Nepali would understand what the text on the shirt says. More (9)»

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