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MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews reputed Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage’s multi-lingual movie Paradise. How worthy is a life, when it belongs to someone from a subjugated ethnic community with absolutely no privilege? In Paradise, this question becomes central to a realm of several moral and ideological questions when a young Tamil boy from an estate breathes his last in a small
Muhammed Noushad visits the Chishtiya sufi Ghiyasuddin Auliya’s grave in Hajo, Assam. The unexpected early summer shower gave a calm, inviting charm to the small town of Hajo, situated by the mighty Brahmaputra in Kamrup district, around 30 km away from Guwahati. Hajo is a sacred town for three communities in Assam: with several Hindu temples, a Buddhist pilgrim centre
MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews Oscar-winning American Fiction and analyses the politics of representation in pop culture. In elite educated circles, almost everywhere, there is apparently an ever-growing fascination about listening to the voice of the other: Blacks, indigenous tribes, Dalits, Muslims, migrants, queer, refugees and so on. Although this rising trend would look innocuous and inclusive, with its openness to diversity
Amar Singh Chamkila, a self-made performer hailing from an underprivileged Dalit Sikh family from rural Punjab was a real-life hero, a victim and a martyr. MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews the biopic directed by Imtiaz Ali. Amar Singh Chamkila was a man of controversies and contradictions. The highest-selling artist in the history of Punjab’s music industry, Chamkila was gunned down in 1988
Emotional Aesthetics is a unique workshop series on transformative skills, designed and facilitated by Muhammed Noushad, and conducted in community, educational and corporate settings. Duration: Two days (ideally | 5 hours per day) This can be customised in corporate sector, as per the requirements and . Synopsis: Designed in an experiential learning framework, this workshop is aimed at transformative skills