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The Quad is the only way forward for India, US, Australia and Japan in a China-wary world The Quad’s stated objective of ‘free, open and prosperous’ Indo-Pacific Region lacks the compelling bite, deterrence and collectiveness of a NATO Bhopinder Singh February 16, 2021 07:21:29 IST File image of a ministerial Quad meeting in Tokyo. AP In 2007, former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, then-Australian prime minister John Howard, then-US vice-president Dick Cheney and the Indian prime minister at the time Manmohan Singh, cut an odd picture. Three ultra-conservative hardliners, unabashed ‘nationalists’ and policy hawks on one side, stood beside a pacifist but pragmatic Manmohan in the same room. Personal governance styles aside, this eclectic leadership from the most distant points on a global map foresaw the dangerously expansioni ....
From Asian actors being absent from Best Performance categories at the Oscars, to the scanty budgets allotted to female filmmakers, there seems to be a hypocrisy at play ....
From The Witches to Lion King, portraying disabled people as villainous, scary is a media trope with real world consequences Harmful depictions of people with facial deformities, skin conditions, scars as evil have real life consequences for people with disabilities. Srinidhi Raghavan February 10, 2021 09:05:07 IST Anne Hathaway in a still from The Witches What is ‘normal’? In this monthly column, Srinidhi Raghavan explores the understanding of bodies-minds and navigating spaces as disabled, chronically ill and sick people. Read more from the series here.
It was in August 2020 when the news about the #NewTeacherChallenge on TikTok began to make the rounds. In this challenge, parents were introducing their children to their new teachers, supposedly on Face Time. However, instead of showing them photos of their teachers, the ....
How The White Tiger s hammy voice-over narrative adds to its white gaze conundrum Voice-over (VO) work is not among Bollywood’s strong suites, and even though The White Tiger isn t a Bollywood film per se, it suffers the same problems of clichés as any other Bollywood film when it comes to voiceover narratives. Aditya Mani Jha February 02, 2021 08:25:30 IST A still from The White Tiger | Twitter Ramin Bahrani’s The White Tiger, based on Aravind Adiga’s 2008 novel of the same name, released on Netflix earlier this month. The narrative follows Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav), a Bihari driver who kills his employer Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) and steals a bag full of cash; this is the starting point of his entrepreneurial journey, which he is recounting in an open letter to Wen Jiabao, the visiting Chinese premier. ....
The makers of The White Tiger and A Suitable Boy can’t be held guilty for the white gaze, far from it. What these pieces of content lack, however, is not enough of the Indian gaze. ....