Documentary filmmaking is under-resourced, but film festivals in India and other parts of Southasia provide a boost for the genre.
The third wave of Bhojpuri cinema reveals much about India’s shifting class dynamics.
Obsessive male pursuit of women is commonplace in Indian cinema, reflecting deep-seated and worrying social norms.
The song and dance sequence in Bollywood cinema is often dismissed as a frivolous filler, but there is substance to it
How Southasia’s dominant film industry is embraced but also appropriated by Kabulis.
M V Ramana’s book dissects India’s nuclear-power lobby to expose its lies and deceit.
A recent documentary film explores the recruitment of Nepali men into the British Brigade of Gurkhas.
