カテゴリー: Culture
Payal Kapadia’s award-winning film sees artistic creativity go hand in hand with the fight for political freedom in Modi’s IndiaCinephilia is, not surprisingly, a favourite subject of film directors, and it has a tendency to manifest itself on screen i…
Drama about a reporter who knows too much about a gruesome traffic incident checks off a grocery list of urgent questions without examining themA young girl gets run over at the beginning of Suresh Triveni’s Jalsa, a brutal event that brings to mind Pa…
Drama about a reporter who knows too much about a gruesome traffic incident checks off a grocery list of urgent questions without examining themA young girl gets run over at the beginning of Suresh Triveni’s Jalsa, a brutal event that brings to mind Pa…
Sallie Culy, who has Williams Syndrome, is the first artist with an intellectual disability to exhibit in Wellington’s public art Lightbox programme“It’s good to be alive,” artist Sallie Culy says as she finishes a ham and cheese sandwich at one of the…
Door security error meant one of country’s largest city libraries was left open for hours, allowing hundreds to browse shelvesAs New Zealand celebrated a national holiday, one of the country’s largest city libraries was closed, with staff and security …
Khaula Jamil explores the difficulties faced by Bengali-speakers in Pakistan, and how they are filtering down the generationsThere are two kinds of Bengalis in Pakistan. The first are those who were living in West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) and ch…
Māori women are represented in every category and two Māori writers are among the four shortlisted for the fiction prizeFrom an acerbic novel about queer Māori-Russian-Catalan siblings to a self-published portrait of 100 indigenous women, the books in …
Bumzu is one of the most influential people in K-pop, helping shape South Korea’s multibillion-dollar global music businessWhen Jin from the superstar boyband BTS released Super Tuna – an upbeat song about his favourite pastime, fishing – it instantly …
Alia Bhatt stars as schmaltz and spectacular fantasy-musical setpieces balance the gruesomeness of this true-crime yarnHere is a luxuriously sleazy-sentimental melodrama about the Mumbai underworld, directed with gusto by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the pow…
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and beyond are using poetry to come to terms with atrocities – and as a form of resistanceIt has now been a year since the military coup, and the breeze of democracy has become a dead wind in Myanmar. People breathe the …
A MoMA exhibition takes a new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independenceLight lands softly on concrete walls in a series of silver gelatin prints by an unknown photographer. These small, s…
Untold Narratives founder Lucy Hannah’s just-published collection showcases the fiction of marginalised writers in AfghanistanWhen Lucy Hannah decided to put together an anthology of short stories by Afghan women in 2019, it already seemed like a hugel…
Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement’s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the TalibanA veteran of the hip-hop scene and internationally celebrated breakdancer, Nancy Yu – AKA Asia One – has her fair…
The music of Bappi ‘Da’, who died last week, fueled global hits and was sampled by Dr Dre and MIAAt the height of his fame in the 1980s, “the disco king of Bollywood”, Bappi Lahiri, who died this week, was composing nearly 15 soundtracks a year.Born in…
Kazakhstani caper sends Dastan off for one last fishing weekend with his mates before the baby arrives, but horror descends in more ways than oneDeliverance meets The Hangover in this wacky-but-slapdash horror-comedy from Kazakhstan. It’s juvenile, cra…