Five frames into Tandav, the controversial political drama on Amazon Prime, two policemen drop a Hindi obscenity, jolting the viewer to attention. The forbidden word used liberally in everyday parlance in North India never made it to cable TV. On Internet platforms that escaped regulation, …
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The Supreme Court’s remarks while denying interim protection from arrest to the maker and actor of the web series Tandav and, a day later, the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s rejection of bail to comedian Munawar Faruqui point to a disturbing abdication. In the frequent run-ins …
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When life seems to spin out of control, we tend to philosophise that our lives are mere roles in a script written by someone else. There is an odd comfort in this abdication of responsibility. Shakespeare came up with a more poetic expression: “Life’s but …
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