This film gained traction through publicity, with expectations rising after the success of The Court, which addressed a ...

"Dhandoraa" movie review highlights its compelling anti-caste narrative, strong performances, and impactful transformation ...

The 'When They See Us' director looks to Isabel Wilkerson's landmark book to challenge the tools used to divide humans, drawing connections between India, Nazi Germany and American inequality. In ...

Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And when ...

“You can’t be walking around at night, on a white street, and not expect trouble.” Author Isabel Wilkerson’s mother has likely said something like this before, in one of any number of tragic contexts.

Ava DuVernay is an accomplished dramatic director who knows how to craft a human story around a crusading idea without letting one overwhelm the other. She proved that with 2014’s Selma, her Martin ...

The power of an analogy is twofold: it can make something relatable, or it can completely turn upside down all of our preconceived notions. Isabel Wilkerson seeks to do the latter in her most recent ...

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In 1934, 17 German legal scholars gathered in Berlin to create the legal framework for an Aryan nation. They began by asking how the Americans had done it. The U.S. was centuries ahead, in terms of ...

Kannanari’s The Menon Investigation uses the frame of a crime thriller to expose the deep entrenchment of caste and patriarchy in modern India. Through its flawed protagonist Vijay Menon, the novel ...

The author attacks the whole caste system, not merely the disabilities of the Untouchables, as a block on India's road to true nationhood. Loading... Please enable ...