When ownership becomes resistance: what the digital age is quietly taking away from us

Gondhal’s selection as India’s Oscar 2027 entry, over a field of mainstream Hindi and regional films, but is India broadening its idea of what represents Indian cinema globally?

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Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost places Shakespeare’s Hamlet against the realities of Palestinian life under occupation. Through Sonia Nasir, a British-Palestinian actress returning to Haifa and joining an Arabic production in Ramallah, the novel explores exile, memory, identity and resistance. Theatre becomes neither salvation nor spectacle, but a fragile act of solidarity in a world shaped by surveillance, checkpoints and uncertainty.

Pratyusha Pan

From Taylor Swift’s literary references to the inspirational English teachers of cinema, literature continues to shape how we understand the world and ourselves. But as AI transforms education and fewer students choose English studies, what lies ahead for literature? Perhaps its future rests on something technology cannot replace: our enduring human need to tell stories, hear them, question them, and find ourselves in them.

Debolina Chaulay

The ED’s latest probe into the Tirupati laddu case is examining alleged irregularities in ghee supplies, companies, transactions and records — revealing new details about the suspected supply network.

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Ganesh Chaturthi 2026: The celebrations conclude with emotional immersions that generate severe waste-management and environmental challenges for Indian cities. Municipal corporations are increasingly utilizing artificial ponds and floral waste separation to balance traditional festivities with aquatic ecosystem preservation.

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But why Tucker? What did he do to make millions of people globally collectively grieve? He was, after all, ‘just a dog’ on the internet. But was he?

Medhasree Talapatra

Umar Khalid examines colonial statecraft, subaltern political mobilization, and the tribal life of Singhbhum. He shows how British indirect rule co-opted Manki-Munda customary governance to enforce revenue extraction, codify elite representation, and alter indigenous agrarian relations. Tracking this institutional legacy from Chota Nagpur land settlements to Fifth Schedule governance, the book shapes a critical historic framework for debates on Adivasi rights and development in India.

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More than five decades later, it took another two years to save what remained of the film. From Meena Kumari’s failing health and the death of its creators to a camera negative that had almost melted, Pakeezah has survived not once, but twice—first as a film, and then as a piece of India film history.

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