Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. In his new book, Northeast India: A Political History, which was written before the current flare-up of tensions in Manipur, Samrat Choudhury points out that “Manipur remains suspended in an uneasy peace, prone to descending into fraternal conflict just as it was a thousand years ago, in the days when …
Bondhu is Kunal Sen’s first book. That’s how Kunal addressed his father, renowned filmmaker Mrinal Sen, who would have turned 100 this year. They also shared a common ideology: that of making the world a fairer and better place to live, and believed films could be a way to talk about such ideas. Throughout his career, he never made more …
On the legendary filmmaker’s centenary, an excerpt from his memoir Always Being Born which talks about his relationship with Calcutta. “I am a filmmaker by accident and an author by compulsion,” claimed Mrinal Sen, part of the triumvirate of Bengali cinema—along with Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak—who founded the Indian New Wave. The timeframe is the glory days of the …
