Taran N Khan
Taran N Khan is a journalist based in Mumbai. She reported this series as part of the Robert Bosch Stiftung India-Germany Media Ambassador fellowship. Her first book, a non-fiction account of Kabul, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House in India and the UK in 2019. www.porterfolio.net/taran
Found and lost
Castaway Man uses Dor Bahadur Bista’s life and work to explore Nepali society
Jan 11, 2016
Shootings in Kabul
The many obstacles of videography in an Afghan wedding hall.
Dec 31, 2015
A road well travelled
COLUMN: Yirmiyan Arthur Yhome’s documentary captures a personal journey through a complex landscape.
Nov 30, 2015
A glimpse of hardship
COLUMN: Three documentaries offer moving and intimate portraits of the rural poor.
Nov 21, 2015
The Bollywood disconnect
COLUMN: India’s film fraternity needs to shake off its distaste for the ‘political’ and speak up.
Nov 03, 2015
A tale of two documentaries
COLUMN: What the disruption of two documentary films means for free speech and dissent in India.
Sep 08, 2015
‘A kick in the pants’
COLUMN: Of a writer and a magazine that brought drama to film criticism.
Aug 07, 2015
Violence frame by frame
A new documentary looks at the build-up to the Muzaffarnagar riots and the aftermath.
Jul 01, 2015
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