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‘With Ikkis , we refused to ramp it up.’
Ikkis happens to be Sriram Raghavan’s first deviation from the thriller genre. A war story told with restraint and nuance, it is an outlier in an otherwise shrill ecosystem. Frontline recently sat down with Sriram and his long-time collaborator, screenwriter Arijit Biswas, the team behind Badlapur and Andhadhun, for a long, candid conversation about war films, the craft of writing around facts, and what it costs to keep a film honest. Edited excerpts: What are your favourite war films?
Thackerays Reunite to Oppose BJP’s Hindi Imposition in Maharashtra
“What Balasaheb [Thackeray] failed to do, Devendra Fadnavis has accomplished,” said Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray at the Marathi Victory Rally that he held jointly with his (until recently, quite seriously estranged) cousin and former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai on July 5.
Books on Resistance and Identity to Read in August 2025
The Remnants of Rebellion Ponnu Elizabeth Mathew Aleph Rs.899 This novel set in a colonial bungalow in Puthuloor, Kerala, harks back to the days of the naxalite movement. Old forgotten wounds open up when the protagonist—an artist—starts researching her family history.
Bengaluru’s MAP Explores British-Era Textile Labels in Art Form
Material histories have increasingly become part of art museum exhibitions in the last decade or so. That is to say, the display of artefacts, both images and objects, that are not traditionally considered to be in the realm of visual art but are important nonetheless as documents of cultural history. The insight that these artefacts are worth preserving, studying, and writing about as part of visual culture as a whole is backed by recent scholarship and theorising by cultural historians.
“We Did Theatre for the People, Not for Power”: Moloyashree Hashmi on Safdar Hashmi and Janam’s Mission
Any chat with Moloyashree Hashmi, the current president of Jana Natya Manch (Janam) and wife of the late Safdar Hashmi, is fraught with peril, especially if you are a pair of lowbrow writers who spend an unhealthy amount of time rambling about films.
Book Review | Historian Ravi Mishra Looks At India’s 2026 Delimitation Crisis
High-voltage political conflicts have become the gladiator sport of our times. More often than not, the underlying issues are entirely frivolous or made-up. On rare occasions, they are non-trivial. The upcoming exercise of delimitation of constituencies for the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies (based on the first Census after 2026) is one such true conundrum that defies easy solutions.
“38 Londres Street” by Philippe Sands: A Gripping Legal Thriller on Pinochet and Nazi Crimes
One Friday in October 1998, a little after 3 pm, an extraordinary fax arrived at Scotland Yard. It was from a judge in Spain. “I order,” it read, “the pre-trial detention of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte for the crimes of genocide and terrorism, issuing international search and capture orders to permit his extradition.
'The Slow Man and His Raft' IS a Film That Breathes New Life to Crises-Ridden Bengali Cinema
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