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Love in the Time of Partition

A ninety-four-year-old man in Chandigarh asks his driver to take him to Sargodha, near Lahore. The driver is stumped. He tries to explain to the old man that this is not possible. They can’t just casually drive into another country. The old man will have none of it. He is old and frail, but no less a tyrant for that. At the border, the BSF officer is amused, but equally at a loss. He has no idea how to bring a senile, delusional man stuck in the past back into the present.

A ‘Controversial’ Film

Nothing could be plainer to see than Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine. Yet, every time a film shows us this plain fact, it becomes ‘controversial’. So it was that when the documentary film No Other Land (2024, directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor) won several international awards including at the Berlin Film Festival and the Academy Awards (known popularly as the Oscars), it was seen as being ‘controversial’.

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