The Colloquium

10/08/2017

President Trump's nuclear-war threat, North Korea and 72 years since "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this song by Pete Seeger couldn't seem more fitting.

Pete Seeger live Australia.

15/08/2015

We turned 5 today :) The website shutdown has forced the hiatus. But we'll be back soon.

03/02/2015

A war veteran's take on what it was like in Iraq. On how Clint Eastwood needed to do a little more to figure out what it is to be an American Sniper in Iraq.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking the hit movie captures the truth of the Iraq conflict. I should know. I lived it

04/12/2014

Four years back we had the privilege of interviewing Justice Krishna Iyer. He was 95 then. He was not keeping well and hence was lying down for most part of the interview. He was candid, patiently answered all our questions and quoted from judgements off hand. Once we finished the interview he asked me not to publish it immediately. He requested for a transcript of the interview to be mailed to his secretary "so that I can correct mistakes that I might have made" he said. Ten days later we received a prompt reply with a few corrections... The interview was published in March 2011. Meeting him was truly inspiring, Justice Krishna Iyer will remain an inspiration for generations to come. RIP

Sir even after your retirement as a judge you remained very active in the public domain and are respected as a person who stood for the cause of the people. Did you not ever consider joining active politics to aid your work amongst the people?

17/11/2014

Justice Krishna Iyer... belated happy 100th birthday :)

Justice Krishna Iyer, who enters his hundredth year today, took the Supreme Court in a new direction while evolving radical principles

28/10/2014

Rocket-science isn't really rocket-science! Understanding Mangalyaan and the physics behind India's first Martian success.

On 24th September, 2014, Managalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter entered the Mars' orbit and has since then been orbiting the planet. Many held their breath in anticipation since no country has till now completed this mission in the first attempt: success or failure, both were possible.

18/10/2014

A lost art reinvented. Daastangoi.

In the past decade, Mahmood Farooqui has reinvented Dastangoi, an ancient art of story- telling, for a modern audience

07/10/2014

"The kind of inequality India has if that were to happen in a European country it would have faced six revolutions. For centuries we have played with the psyche of the masses. That your deeds in the last birth are responsible for your present miserable state of affairs. It is given a religious tinge so that he should not revolt. What if he said he wants the same bread that the rich are having? It is like I have been told that your films don’t make 100 crores because your cinematic vision doesn’t appeal to the popular taste. And I say is janam mein hi 100 crore bana ke dikhayenge"

As “Haider” garners applause over the first weekend of its release, director Vishal Bhardwaj talks about his relationship with Shakespeare For a guy who grew up in the machismo-driven environs ...

24/08/2014

Stumbled upon this... quite liked it... some important answers there. Need to start asking the right questions now.

On Independence Day, AIB tried to get strangers from India and Pakistan to speak to each other over the phone. We found out why Indians and Pakistanis should...

10/07/2014

Zohra Sehgal recites from Faiz

Beautiful recitation of one of Faiz's iconic verses by Zohra Sehgal. This is excerpted from an interview I did of her when she was 99 years old for my film 'Zohra…

10/07/2014

RIP Zohra Sehgal.