During an extensive masterclass at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, veteran Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam engaged in conversation with actor-director Gautham Vasudev Menon about adapting literature to screen, his approach to period filmmaking, and his creative process. Discussing his recent two-part historical epic “Ponniyin Selvan,” based on Kalki Krishnamurthy’s 1950s Tamil […]
“Matt Gaetz must never become America’s attorney general,” the newspaper’s editorial board began a blistering essay published last week. The board ripped Gaetz as a “rogue Florida congressman” and “a provocateur who’s good at delivering rhetorical red meat on the MAGA speaking circuit.” And Gaetz’s selection for the role “lays bare the depth of Trump’s […]
“I went to bed in one of the [hotel room] and he lay down beside me,” Nevenka Fernández, a former member of Ponferrada Municipal Council, recounts how she was raped in 2000 by her boss, Ismael Álvarez, then the all-powerful major of the city. “Why didn’t you leave?” asks Álvarez’s defence attorney in the trial […]
