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Challenge Of The Virtual

Colour brought us closer to lived physical 'meatspace' reality, but virtual production can very easily take us away from it

RECOVERY Diary

Of Sickness and Health|A Foreign Country|The Possibility of Healing

Poetic Faith

The realness of the house on screen

The Narrowing Window

While the climate change conference marks the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era, India will have to urgently find ways to move away from coal. Securing finance for new projects is going to be a big challenge

Realty Overview of 2023

India's real estate sector has shown remarkable resilience in the past year, showcasing the adaptability across various segments with residential, especially luxurious and premium housing, leading the way.

Ladakh Wants MORE

While the Union Territory has welcomed the abrogation of Article 370, it is demanding Sixth Schedule status and full statehood

Parallel Parking in Downtown Srinagar

\"Kashmir was constitutionally up for grabs. 'Buy the exotic Kashmiri land' and 'marry the apple-cheeked Kashmiri women' was the refurbished two-point policy of settling in Kashmir\"

A Constitutional BACKSLIDING?

The judgement of the Supreme Court in the Article 370 case heralds an disconnect between ever-increasing constitutional law and constitutional reality in post-colonial India

IAS Sachin Kurve Unveils Uttarakhand's Sustainable Tourism Roadmap

Shri Sachin Kurve, the Secretary of Tourism and CEO of Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board, discusses Uttarakhand's focus on sustainable tourism, adventure initiatives, and community involvement to preserve nature and culture

A Subliminal LOSS

Over the last decade, the filmmaking and film-watching cultures have transitioned from celluloid to digital. The new tech has provided us several gains, but shouldn't we also pause to consider what we've lost?

HOMO TECHNOLOGICUS

Cinema and technology, a besotted couple across the arc of industrial modernity, is headed for a split

Foreign Exchange

Virtual production technology eliminates the need for Bollywood filmmakers to travel abroad. But what do foreign locations really mean, socially and politically?

Immersive & INTERACTIVE

Much like how cinema changed the lives of people in the previous generation, video games are doing the same for the current generation

Transforming CINEMA

In a few years, virtual production won't be qualified as such; it will simply be called production. Because that's how production will happen.

Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief

I know the black cat was not there. I know you weren’t there either. This is a love letter to realness in the times of everything virtual. Like virtual production.

The Politics of SOCIAL ENGINEERING

By appointing a mix of Adivasi, OBC, Dalit, and Brahmin leaders as CMS and deputy CMs, the BJP is keeping a close eye on the 2024 General Elections

A 370⁰ Turn

The recent Supreme Court verdict upholding the central government's move to abrogate Article 370 of the Indian Constitution impacts Kashmir and its people deeply

State of the State

On August 6, 2019, the Government of India revoked the special status, or autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir. A lockdown followed. Internet connection was cut off.

Residual Memory

AS we lose the uniqueness of our urban visual history, with the soulless replication of commercial spaces at the cost of hundreds of beautiful old architectural landmarks, we also lose the stories of the people and their human relationships with those spaces.

Digital DREAMSCAPES

Virtual production has made a big impact on Hollywood. Will this technological tsunami also wash over Indian cinema, drowning out conventional filmmaking?

A Perfect Invocation that Evoked the Essence of Essence

For decades, BN Goswamy gently held our finger, and walked in search of an 'essence of essence... a pure bliss

The Origins of Evil

When the fire threatens to raze us, there's just one tune pervading our mind, body, and soul: that morality isn't a choice as much as a privilege

A Brave Vote for Change

Despite a boycott call by the Maoists, villagers in Naxal-infested Bastar of Chhattisgarh turned out to vote in large numbers

Fight To The Finish

The Congress party may have some last-minute momentum, but is it enough to defeat two-time chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao's BRS?

Natural Allies

Indigenous communities across the globe are lending their support to the Palestinians

HARNESSING GIRL POWER FOR DISASTER MITIGATION

Recognising the potential of women of Odisha villages to contribute to disaster risk reduction, the Odisha government, in partnership with UNFPA, is pursuing a gender transformative disaster management approach

The Politics of WAR

The world is repulsed by the slaughter in Gaza and the belief is growing stronger that Netanyahu's days as prime minister are numbered

The Stone Philosopher

What the world needs is not philosophers of truth-molesting consensus, but philosophers with a conscience

The Seeds of the Past

If anything could explain the unconscionable abandonment of the Palestinians, it is theopolitics-a dangerous mix of misinterpreted theology and geopolitics

Too Little, Too Late

The four-day-long humanitarian pause allowing a trickle of aid into Gaza after nearly two months of indiscriminate bombing and 16 years of blockade offers bare respite for civilians, no more than that