Bollywood
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PewDiePie is Coloniser Trash
Zach attacks PewDiePie’s remarks after losing the YouTube subscriber race to T-Series as colonial condescension towards Indians, objecting to calling Bangladesh Indian and to jokes about open defecation. The tone…
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Trevor Noah disses India?
Zach comments on Trevor Noah’s joke on the India-Pakistan standoff, agreeing with Omar’s analysis but not his conclusion. He argues the joke elevated Pakistan, a bankrupt state, to equal footing…
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Two Dosas
A short film about a love story set in an Indian restaurant, shared with a note that the author could not find the Western pop video he was looking for.
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This Zach is an ass
The author objects to a tweet by Zach Goldberg that portrays his Indian girlfriend as confused by diversity training and wanting only Bollywood films, arguing that it plays on Orientalist…
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No Muslim actors please; we’re Hindu..
A short comment on a photo of a Hindi film delegation meeting Narendra Modi, in which no Muslim star appears, ending with a lament for Urdu.
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The Ambanis got it so wrong with their Wedding Celebration.
The author argues that the Ambanis got their wedding celebration wrong, comparing it with the year’s four other Indian celebrity weddings, which he judges more dignified. He sets this against…
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Love is love
The author praises Priyanka Chopra’s wedding to Nick Jonas at Umaid Bhavan, with few Bollywood guests, as an emancipated Desi woman’s challenge to patriarchy and a proud choice to marry…
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Karan Johar dons the Pakistan flag..
Remarks on a Pakistani man’s resemblance to Karan Johar and wonders whether the ‘K-Joification’ of India will catch on in Pakistan, preferring that Turanian poetic traditions of same-sex love be…
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The Thought of You, Perfect 10 winner at the Mumbai Film Festival
A short note on a 15-minute English-language film that won at the Mumbai Film Festival, starring Kalki Koechlin: the author gives it six out of ten, finding the story punchy…
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whitening Jain Music
Starting from a catchy song by a French-Malagasy artist who looks white, the author argues crude racial categories are returning, that British period dramas leave little room for BAME actors,…
