by Yavar Abbas | Mar 31, 2006 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
It is more than six weeks that I saw it but I am still haunted by the images in Lalit Mohan Joshi’s debut documentary BEYOND PARTITION, premiered at London’s Nehru Centre on 22nd February. The images have been put together in such an effective manner that...
by Yavar Abbas | Dec 8, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
Freedom of expression is one of the essential freedoms in a civilized society. For a writer, however, it is more than essential. It is his oxygen. Without it he will choke to death as a writer. I have had personal experience of that choking feeling lately. My friends,...
by Yavar Abbas | Oct 26, 2004 | Column For Hindustan Times, Writings
In the middle of such momentous events when the future conduct of the most powerful country in the world is the issue in the most bitterly fought Presidential Election that one can remember, and a grisly attempt is being made to decide the future of a proud people by...
