When Christ cries and Anti-Christ laughs
I was born,brought up and got fermented as an apprentice rebel in the Roman Catholic Syro-Malabar Church in Kerala. Me and our village poet Josukuttan were ex communicated at the…
Joshy Joseph
‘ISHANOU’: One question – One answer
Joshy Joseph : “The poem is a muscular and composed thing. It moves like a wave, dissolving the literal. We participate in its flow as it moves from the eye…
An asteroid named Aribam Syam Sharma
There is a very famous story which I had repeated recently at the North East film festival conducted…
What’s that decisive moment in art and life?
"History has become a catechism. You are given a question; you are given the answer. You stick with that question and you stick with that answer. Don't ask another question…
An autofiction Manifesto
I was making all kinds of films all these years, but mostly non-fiction films. The idiom of story-telling in my films were more or less indebted to a fictional tradition. …
Camels, Angels and Needle head of Cinema
The quest for the new and the undiscovered has driven mankind all through its existential evidence on the planet. At some point the discoveries and the load of knowledge going…
Razak Kottakkal: A Walk Through The Memory Lane
Razak Kottakkal is identified with artistic photographs. Almost everyone ~ living or otherwise ~ connected with Malayalam literature insisted on accompanying their works with photographs taken by Razak. Writers grew…
“Cinema is a Sycophant to literature” – Part – II
My feeling that a poet, who called cinema a sycophant of literature would have approved Aravindan, a director who explored the medium's possibilities, lends courage to me. This is uncannily…
“Cinema is a Sycophant to literature” – Part – I
The Symphony No 5 was inside Beethovan’s brain, when he first conceived it. A group of musicians invoke that experience, aurally, from the atmosphere every time they meet to perform.…
In cinema, naked feet are not assigned sounds, but they gain them in poems
It's better to stay away from poetics to present in prose someone who wrote in verse that his poems have no forewords, critical studies or words of adulation. My patron…
God’s Own Fools
These are all very Kolkatan in nature and you really won’t get to see or hear them in any other parts of the country. What? Some years back a national…
Andrei Tarkovsky, Satyajit Ray And Mani Kaul
Endurance of pain is an idea directly drawn from Christianity. However, in the Indian context, historically, endurance of pain is regarded as un-knowledge, avidya (in Sanskrit an antonym of knowledge,…
In search of the common man
Every time I returned to Mumbai, I looked forward to reading the pocket-cartoons of RK Laxman. Though everything changes around him, the common man, with his studied silence witnessing twists…
John Was More Naked Than Adam
Hell is not God’s idea, I believe. I also believe that John Abraham and God had an erratic relationship with each other. But then, why the hell didn’t John invest…
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