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Film festivals
A fad or a need?
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This year, a Konkani-language film, The Man Beyond the Bridge, by a first-time director, Laxmikant Shetgaonkar, went on to win the prestigious Fipresci (International Federation of Film Critics) Award at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival
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never-ending. It is that time of the year when India hosts an
international film festival virtually every fortnight. The
question is: how much is too much? Cineastes, on their part, aren’t
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Poetry in stone
Full of literary and allegorical imagery, some classic epitaphs can be found in
English churchyards. S. Raghunath on how epitaphs can be jolly clean fun
What is more
appropriate epitaph for a crossword addict than 6 DOWN? Epitaphs
need not necessarily be grim and melancholic. They can be (and
possibly should be) jolly, clean fun — a tribute to the sense
of humour of a person who has passed on (in case of a
self-epitaph) or of this survivors.
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