DREAMS & REALITIES Ashok Vajpei & P Sainath at the Mumbai Screenwriter’s Conference

Mumbai Wed 3 Aug 2016 by Harsha Prabhu   The 4th Indian Screenwriter’s Conference at St Andrew’s auditorium in the suburb of Bandra, Mumbai got off to a flying start today. Poet and arts administrator Ashok Vajpeyi’s speech was on India’s rich cultural and linguistic diversity and multiplicity of vision. He said there were over 700 languages in India and Hindi alone had 46 dialects. … Continue reading DREAMS & REALITIES Ashok Vajpei & P Sainath at the Mumbai Screenwriter’s Conference

An appeal to voters

        Dear Fellow-Indians, The best thing about our country is its cultural diversity, its pluralism – the co-existence of a number of religions and ethnicities over centuries, and hence the blooming of multiple streams of intellectual and artistic thought. And, this has been possible only because Indian society has prided itself on being essentially secular in character, rejecting communal hatred, embracing tolerance. Today, that … Continue reading An appeal to voters