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2025: The Year Indian Cinema Stopped Arriving and Started Belonging

For a long time, Indian cinema existed inside a language of anticipation. We spoke of it as an industry perpetually “on the brink”, of global recognition, of serious critical legitimacy, of finally being understood beyond stereotypes. Every festival screening was framed as a breakthrough, every foreign review treated as a moment of validation.

A land of stories still, waiting for its own

The Northeast has always existed in our national imagination as both a presence and an absence—visible in political rhetoric yet eccentrically missing from our cultural narratives.

Reclaim the internet to empower, not exploit

The Supreme Court’s move on April 28, to examine obscenity regulations for OTT platforms and social media (in a PIL filed by Uday Mahurkar and others) is both urgent and necessary.