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		<title>The Bard of Brahmaputra (Tribute in Outlook Magazine)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Utpal Borpujari In Assam, there is every likelihood that among the first sounds a baby would hear immediately after birth would be a Bhupen Hazarika song. Sounds like an exaggeration, but ask any Assamese you know, and you will be told that it’s a fact. I first met the legend when I was around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utpalborpujari.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4850891&amp;post=1727&amp;subd=utpalborpujari&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bhupen Hazarika: A personal tribute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Utpal Borpujari It’s quite an irony that obituary reports in the media largely have been identifying Dr Bhupen Hazarika as the “music maestro” and the “legendary balladeer”. He was, of course, both of these, but the kind of impact this genius has had in the socio-cultural-political space of a huge geographic region comprising the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utpalborpujari.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4850891&amp;post=1723&amp;subd=utpalborpujari&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sahib, Biwi Aur Gangster: Cinema of many layers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Utpal Borpujari In the context of contemporary Hindi cinema, Tigmanshu Dhulia is an important maker. He is one director who has a keen eye &#38; ear for north Indian socio-politics, which was amply reflected in his debut feature film Haasil. Since Haasil, he has made Charas and Shagird, which somehow fell quite short of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utpalborpujari.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4850891&amp;post=1718&amp;subd=utpalborpujari&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mahasweta Devi’s name opened all doors for us: Italo Spinelli</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer-activist Mahasweta Devi’s story Choli Ke Peeche/Behind the Bodice is a stinging indictment of exploitation of tribals as well as the media’s insensitive, if not sensational, handling of delicate issues. It is this story that Italian director Italo Spinelli has chosen to make his debut feature film Gangor with. Spinelli, who has earlier directed several [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utpalborpujari.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4850891&amp;post=1709&amp;subd=utpalborpujari&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fairytale of a little Kalam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 08:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Utpal Borpujari It is easy to descend to a preachy mood while making a movie on a socially-relevant subject, and there are umpteen number of examples all over India of it. It is equally difficult to take up a theme as depressing as a vast chunk of children from poor Indian families not having [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utpalborpujari.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4850891&amp;post=1703&amp;subd=utpalborpujari&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Garm Hava: A Classic Reborn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Utpal Borpujari Garm Hava was made with a budget of a mere INR 800,000 – even in the early 1970s, when it was produced, this was a tiny amount for a full-length feature film. Further, the actors agreed to accept reduced fees, that too in instalments, sometimes running over a period of years, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utpalborpujari.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4850891&amp;post=1698&amp;subd=utpalborpujari&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Lara: Recreating Age-Old Ties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Utpal Borpujari He made the first film of Guadeloupe, the tiny Francophone island in the Caribbean, way back in 1978, after making two feature films in Belle Isle en Mer in France in the early 1970s. Since then, he has made 17 more films, with stories that have taken viewers from France to Guadeloupe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utpalborpujari.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4850891&amp;post=1695&amp;subd=utpalborpujari&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Requiem to a Journey Worth Every Step</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Utpal Borpujari Long before the cinemas of Asian nations had started making waves across the world, when Asian cinema meant largely only Satyajit Ray, Akira Kurosawa, Ozu and Mizoguchi to most, and when Iranian cinema was just about to make its first international splash; one sprightly lady devised out of New Delhi what was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utpalborpujari.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4850891&amp;post=1689&amp;subd=utpalborpujari&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading the North-East</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Utpal Borpujari Is there a distinct literary stream that flows from North-East India as compared to literary trends in the rest of India? As literature from North-East India, a region still far removed from the national consciousness unless it has to do with negativities such as insurgencies, corruption and natural calamities, is slowly but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utpalborpujari.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4850891&amp;post=1684&amp;subd=utpalborpujari&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the good translators? : Manikuntala Bhattacharjya</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manikuntala Bhattacharjya is one of the most popular and prolific writers of modern Assamese literature. The young author has already created an oeuvre of novels, short stories, children&#8217;s literature and poetry collections in Assamese. Some of this has been translated into English and Hindi. Among her 20 novels, the most popular ones have been Arundhati, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utpalborpujari.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4850891&amp;post=1681&amp;subd=utpalborpujari&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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