By Manu Savani The Beginning of Mohanlal Kala Savani’s Business Journey The growth of the Indian film business in the history of...
By Laura Fair Films and movie-going are the central focus of this book ‘For generations, going to the movies was the...
By Brigitte Reinwald This article deals with cinematographic history ...
By Valli Jamal The Drive-In was the place to be on a Sunday evening w...
By Anjum Asodia MY PERSONAL STORY I joined Coastweek, at its incepti...
By Kul Bhushan who reviewed them from 1967 to 1980 and interviewed mos...
By Neera Kapur-Dromson The age of cinema arrived – even in Nairobi – ...
Naaz ki Kahaani Meri Zubani. (The story of Naaz and my testimony) By ...
By Billie Odidi The once imperial building in the historic Stone Town...
A critique (last of three) by Karim Hirji of articles in AwaaZ Volume 15, Issue 2 2018. Kofi Annan In the year prior ...
London Calling by Ramnik Shah My earliest memory of going to the cinema is being taken to the Majestic Theatre in Momba...
By Marge Piercy (https://monthlyreview.org/author/margepiercy/) (Nov 01, 2019) Topics: Capitalism (https://monthlyrevi...
Nandita Haksar: ‘We do not seem to realize that the cultural diversity of 220 communities in the Nor...
By Rasna Warah Usually it is writers who have a fan following, but in the case of Ali Zaidi, it was writers who were fans of the much-loved editor, as I discovered when I attended the many garden parties which he held in his home in Loresho, one of the greener suburbs of Nairobi. There, people like Binyavanga Wainaina (who passed away three months before Ali died and whose death had really shaken Ali), Yvonne Owuor, Parselelo Kantai, Judy Kibinge, Muthoni Wanyeki, Tom Maliti, the late Susan Linee, Zarina Patel, Zahid Rajan, Dana Seidenberg,...
By Nandita Haksar Even before the adoption of the Constitution, in November 1949 India had embarked upon the stupendous task of preparing the electoral rolls on the basis of universal adult franchise. The exercise turned adult Indians into voters even before they had become citizens. Some authors have called this exercise the ‘greatest experiment in democratic human history’. One writer has said: ‘By late 1949 India pushed through the frontiers of the world’s democratic imagination and gave birth to the largest democracy.’ Right back in 1928 Nehru in a report had stated: ‘any artificial restriction on...
Sultan Jessa passed away on 22 August 2019 in Montreal, Canada, aged 77. The man who was...