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Monday, November 10, 2025
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Topic: Documentary

Why 2020 is a good year for Indians at the Oscars and Emmys of wildlife film festivals

A tale of elephants in tribal Betta Kuruba language & documentary on manta ray smuggling are among India's offerings to the world’s biggest wildlife film festivals this year.

‘Taste the nation’ — Padma Lakshmi explores American diversity with new docuseries on food

In over 10 episodes, Padma Lakshmi travels to various parts of the US to meet its indigenous and immigrant communities and hear their stories through the food they eat.

Making of Wild Karnataka, the first Indian wildlife film to be released in theatres

4K ultra-HD film Wild Karnataka took 4 yrs & 400 hrs of footage, and is the first Indian movie to be narrated by legendary natural historian David Attenborough.

HS Bhatavdekar, the Indian who created a motion picture 14 years before Dadasaheb Phalke

On his 151st birth anniversary, ThePrint takes a look at the Bombay photographer who in 1899 made The Wrestlers, considered to be India's first motion picture.

When others tell our stories: Why Oscar win for ‘Period’ is yet another Slumdog moment

Like Period, both Bohemian Rhapsody and Slumdog Millionaire were films waiting for Indians to make them.

Sen censorship is new sequel to conflict over CBFC’s politics

The Amartya Sen documentary censorship row is being slammed as another indicator of the politicisation and autocratic ways of the CBFC. AADYA SINHA

On Camera

US to resume nuclear testing—what are India’s choices?

All options are costly and risky. But not making a decision now could further limit India’s choices in the future.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.