Interview with Shabana Azmi
Tim Sebastian talked to Shabana Azmi in London for the BBC's Hardtalk Interview just after the film, Fire, was released in India. Excerpts:
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Intolerance is the result of self-indulgence, and when religions turn their hack on their founding ideals.
A standard thesaurus list of the syn onyms for "intolerance" would
The past is not always something to be proud about. Deep down, we are all mongrels. There is always an element of shame hidden in history, and such is the
Fringe extremists on both sides of the India-Pakistan border are feeding off each other to kill, maim and brutalise their people in the name of religion.
It must be
Extremist Hindutva worming its way into the minds of the Indian masses is making intolerance look like a good habit.
The leopard does not change its spots. It was a
Bombay and Karachi. once acclaimed as the two most cosmopolitan and dynamic commercial centres of South Asia, have been reduced to clusters of warring, sectarian ghettoes. Violent political goons, extortionists
Since early 1993, Patna had been asking an unsympathetic central government for help in curbing the water appetite of upstream states. But even as talks were going on, Delhi. with
Bihar Inspector General of Police Ramchandra Khan is an unusual cop. He feels passionately about the Kosi River, and decades of bad plans to constrict its flow. Inspector Khan understands
One of the great uncertainties about building high dams in the Himalaya for hydropower and flood control is the threat that they would pose to the plains in the event
