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So You Think You Can Make Political Films, Bollywood?
Madhur Bhandarkar’s Indu Sarkar proves that it’s not just Indian politics that is a joke, but also its representation on the big screen.
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Indira Gandhi’s Assassination and the Tale of Two Childhoods
For me, Indira Gandhi’s assassination and the riots that followed was just a detail, merely newsprint. The impersonal nature of the incident insulated me from the human aspect of the killing. That is, until decades later, the tragedy of 1984’s events came home to me.
