Jnanpith Award-winning author Pratibha Ray recoils with horror as she recounts the event that changed the course of her life. On a cold December evening in 1987, she was abused, assaulted and shoved out of the Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri by a group of servitors on mere suspicion that the lady accompanying her was a non-Hindu. The incident highlights the two worst features of the world famous temple that have now forced the Supreme Court to intervene: the conduct of the servitors and the treatment of non-Hindus — or even those ‘looking like’ non-Hindus. And on both counts, the servitors have made it abundantly clear that they would not mend their ways and would, in fact, defy even the Supreme Court if it dares “encroach" into their fiefdom. Read senior journalist Sandeep Sahu’s take on the notorious pandas of Puri.
The recent incident in Dhule, Maharashtra, where a mob lynched five persons from a nomadic tribe can be understood and analysed from different perspectives. Mayank Sinha, member of National Alliance Group for Nomadic and Denotified Tribe, explains how most Ethnic Nomadic Groups are displaced from their natural habitation due to privatisation of community resources, have lost their natural habitation and forest, climate change and are impacted by the changing global economic scenario and technological transformation. On reel
In conversation with two extremely talented men — Anurag Kashyap and Nawazuddin Siddiqui — who after proving their mettle in the Hindi film industry with films like Satya, Dev D, Black Friday and Gangs of Wasseypur among others are on a mission to take on the digital space. Watch the duo talk at length about Netflix's first India original series Sacred Games, creative freedom in the digital platform, Censor Board and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt99t2LFo5U.
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