Montage, the technique that once revolutionised cinema, has now become the very thing chaining the film to itself, shrivelling all its possibilities into one resolved meaning.
A cycle of governance failures, official denials, and attacks on critics is eroding public trust and deepening the Modi government’s crisis of legitimacy. The Election Commission controversy is its latest example.
A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in 98 forest hamlets in Tamil Nadu’s Meghamalai hills following the Supreme Court’s eviction order against “encroachers” in a bid to protect the fragile ecology of the Srivilliputhur-Meghamalai Tiger Reserve.
Originally published in 1990, Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments asks a question that remains painfully relevant: what happens when political violence becomes part of ordinary life?
At a moment when dissent is reduced to a law-and-order problem, it is worth looking at what makes people willing to protest. India’s history shows movements are born when private emotions become collective political demands.
The UN has become a bloated bureaucracy undermined by big powers and incapable of stopping urgent crises of war and climate change. With initiatives like UN80 only scratching the surface, the next Secretary-General must prepare for serious reform.