January 24, 2022 Courage Under Fire Award: 'Writing With Fire' Team on Finding Hope in the Unlikeliest Place Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh are this year’s recipients of IDA’s Courage Under Fire Award . Their film Writing With Fire is the story of Khabar Read more
November 22, 2021 Duty of Care: The Filmmaker-Protagonist Relationship “Really… I feel reluctant… coming to receive you… as my interviewers or crew… Because ever since my exposure to the camera…. As an internationally Read more
November 17, 2021 The Fractured World of Lovers in Payal Kapadia's Documentary 'A Night of Knowing Nothing' Watching Payal Kapadia’s A Night of Knowing Nothing has been nothing less than transformative. Not because it compels one to think beyond the realms Read more
August 15, 2021 Ten Documentaries To Watch for Indian Independence Day This Sunday, August 15th, 2021 India celebrates 74 years of its independence from British imperial rule. It has been an incredibly challenging year Read more
June 28, 2021 Uncovering Satyajit Ray's Documentaries "On the 7th of August 1941, in the city of Calcutta, a man died," begins Satyajit Ray’s 1961 documentary Rabindranath Tagore (1961). The eponymous Read more
October 2, 2020 Decolonizing Documentaries in South Asia Continuing the theme of #DecolonizeDocs that was first initiated at Getting Real ‘18, the 2020 edition’s first focused session on the South Asian Read more
November 28, 2004 Before Bollywood! The Long, Rich History of Documentary in India On the historic midnight of August 14 and 15, 1947, India became independent from British rule. First Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's speech Read more
March 1, 1999 Documentary in India Today In a country producing more than 600 feature films a year, in an incredible array of 23 languages, the Indian documentary film has always been a poor Read more