→ Explore the debates around historical inaccuracies in films like Braveheart, The Patriot, or Pearl Harbor. -Anushka Sengupta “Hollywood vs. History: When Cinema Twisted the Past for the Plot” → Explore the debates around historical inaccuracies in films like Braveheart, The Patriot, or Pearl Harbor. Introduction Cinema has an extraordinary capacity to animate history—recreating wars, […]Read More
→ Evaluate how accurate films like Mughal-e-Azam, Troy, Jodhaa Akbar, Lincoln, or Padmaavat were in portraying history -Anushka Sengupta Period films are not just stories about a time in the past–they are artistic reconstructions of history where exemplary costumes, elevated crowns, spectacular sets and phenomenal actors do their best to perform characters from the past. […]Read More
– Mili Joshi Hidden in the historic lanes of Hanamkonda lies a temple that sends shivers down your spine. The Kala Bhairav Temple isn’t just another place of worship. It’s where the fierce guardian of time himself resides. The Guardian Who Never Sleeps Step into this sacred space and you’ll feel it immediately. The air […]Read More
– Mili Joshi Raghunath Temple Jammu: Where Heaven Meets Earth in the City of Temples Step into Jammu. Feel the spiritual energy pulse through every street. At the heart of this ancient city stands a marvel that has captivated souls for nearly two centuries. Welcome to Raghunath Temple – not just a temple, but a […]Read More
-Mili Joshi Avishi: The Warrior Queen of Rigveda The Rigveda tells us many stories. Some are about gods and goddesses. Others are about brave humans. Among these stories, we find tales of warrior queens. One such queen was Avishi. Who Was Avishi? Avishi was a powerful queen in ancient India. She lived during the Vedic […]Read More
-Mili Joshi Dakkebali: The World’s Most Powerful Snake Ritual The Arabian Sea on one side splashes into the lap of the Western Ghats of India, where the tradition of Dakkebali unfolds in coastal regions with the entire ceremony so grand that spiritual seekers and enthusiasts of culture have been drawn to it for centuries. Dakkebali […]Read More
-Mili Joshi Colonel Megh Singh Rathore, Vir Chakra, has been revered as perhaps the foremost in the Indian military firmament. The father of modern Indian Special Forces, this extraordinary officer’s legacy continues to appeal to generations of soldiers and military leaders. His visionary concepts of training, with an eye toward the very unconventional warfare he […]Read More
-Mili Joshi As if we were conversing with two people at once, but only one of them seems to be speaking, there is a strange intimacy in reading a work in translation—the feeling of meeting a mind across linguistic boundaries while also being aware of the invisible presence of another: the translator. This triangulated relationship […]Read More
-Anushka Sengupta → Examine cinema as resistance—from To Kill a Mockingbird to Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Within the story of human civilization, the marginalized have struggled to find the means to express their suffering, resistance and hope. Wherever political systems have let them down and the mainstream media has ultimately ignored them, cinema has […]Read More
– Anushka Sengupta → Spotlight Parasite, Pather Panchali, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and their global cultural breakthroughs Cinema is a universal language. For more than 100 years, the global cinema stage was heavily influenced by Western, and especially Hollywood narratives. Yet some landmark films from Asia and other non-Western parts of the world broke those […]Read More