The people of the South Asian diaspora may be removed from the subcontinent by thousands of kms and hundreds of years, but Bollywood cinema binds them together. The world's largest film industry isn't in Hollywood. It's in Mumbai, India. And the films are hugely popular everywhere in the world but the west. It is also a testament to the power of words.
Dictators fear their poets and playwrights almost more than they fear enemy soldiers.
A Keen Eye, a fascinating blend of photographs, paintings, films, sculpture, constructions and collages , because he's famous. But she was more than that. The 30th International Film Festival Rotterdam begins this week, the first of the city s events in its year as European Cultural Capital. But rather than just showing movies the west coast harbour town now wants to star in them. The Rietveld-Schr der house now finds itself in the prestigious company of the Taj Mahal, Great Wall of China and the pyramids of Egypt.