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Pink

The Inside Story

By: Gautam Chintamani

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Na' sirf ek shabd nahi ... apne aap mein pura vakya hai. Isey kisi tark, spashtikaran, explanation ya vyakhya ki jaroorat nahi hoti ... 'No' ka matlab 'no' hota hai. Usey bolne wali ladki koi parichit ho, friend ho, girlfriend ho, koi sex worker ho ya aapki apni biwi hi kyu na ho. 'No' means 'no' and when someone says 'no', you stop ... Seldom has a contemporary film's dialogues fired the general imagination the way Pink's did. Seldom has a film challenged 'Bollywood's popular misogynistic tropes' like Pink did. Released in September 2016, the film began to trend immediately. Over the next few months, as it became a phenomenal box-office success, it also became the subject of social and cultural debates - on the rights of women, and the justice and penal system in India. Not only did it manage to capture the zeitgeist but also established itself as a yardstick by which future films making a socio-political statement would be judged. The film became a tool for organizations to sensitize people about crimes against women. For a Hindi film to be able to do that is unheard of.Pink: The Inside Story looks at the making of the movie and tries to understand why it resonated with large sections of society. With inputs from its principal cast and crew, Gautam Chintamani tracks the journey of the film - from its inception to the writing of its numerous drafts that kept being shaped by real-life events and personal experiences of the people connected with it, to its toils to wangle a producer within 'Bollywood' as the big studios refused to come on board, and from its spot-on casting to the immediacy with which it endeared itself to its audience. Including the much-feted screenplay of the film, this is a riveting account of how one of the most important films of our times came to be made.

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Harper Collins

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9352770390

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9789352770397

The Midway Battle

Modi's Rollercoaster Second Term

By: Gautam Chintamani

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The Midway Battle

Modi's Rollercoaster Second Term

By: Gautam Chintamani

In 2019, the BJP came into power once again on the back of one of the most significant electoral mandates in recent years. Since then, the Narendra Modi-led government has seen a tumultuous few years as they have implemented far-reaching legislative changes including the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, triple talaq, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act as well as farming laws. These laws, when implemented, caused widespread protests and upheaval across the country. While the country grappled with internal strife, it also faced challenges from its neighbours in the form of one of the most intense military stand-offs in decades after an unprovoked attack by China's People's Liberation Army at Galwan as well as a global pandemic. While the Modi government took swift steps to limit the spread of the pandemic in 2020, the second wave of COVID-19 in early 2021 hit the country hard, claiming thousands of lives. Bringing a well-researched and nuanced understanding to Modi's second term, The Midway Battle sheds light on the sociopolitical issues facing India as it continues its struggle against enemies both known and unknown, and puts into in perspective what lies ahead for the world's biggest democracy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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935435369X

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9789354353697

Dark Star

The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna

By: Gautam Chintamani

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Dark Star

The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna

By: Gautam Chintamani

FOREWORD BY SHARMILA TAGORE The first-ever biography of the enigmatic Rajesh Khanna, the original 'superstar' If ever a life was meant to be a book, few could stake a stronger claim. Like a shooting star doomed to darkness after a glorious run, Rajesh Khanna spent the better half of his career in the shadow of his own stardom. Yet, forty years after his last monstrous hit, Khanna continues to be the yardstick by which every single Bollywood star is measured. At a time when film stars were truly larger than life, Khanna was even more: the one for whom the term 'superstar' was coined. Born Jatin Khanna to middle-class parents, the actor was adopted by rich relatives who brought him up like a prince. By the time he won the Filmfare-United Producers Combine Talent Hunt, he was already famous for being the struggler who drove an imported sports car.With seventeen blockbuster hits in succession and mass adulation rarely seen before or since, the world was at Khanna's feet. Everything he touched turned to gold. The hysteria he generated - women writing him letters in blood, marrying his photograph and donning white when he married Dimple Kapadia, people bringing sick children for his 'healing' touch after Haathi Mere Saathi - was unparalleled. Then, in a matter of months, it all changed. Khanna's career hit a downward spiral as spectacular as his meteoric rise just three years after Aradhana (1969) and never really recovered. Dark Star looks at the phenomenon of an actor who redefined the 'film star'. Gautam Chintamani's engaging narrative tries to make sense of what it was that made Rajesh Khanna and what accounted for his extraordinary fall. A singular account of a wondrous life.

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9351363406

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The Midway Battle

Modi's Rollercoaster Second Term

By: Gautam Chintamani

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Modi's Rollercoaster Second Term

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Rajneeti

By: Gautam Chintamani

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Rajneeti

By: Gautam Chintamani

Rajneeti mein ""neeti"" hai, to ""aneeti"" kyon?' - Rajnath Singh Rajnath Singh rose from a Swayamsevak in the RSS to the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and also served as a Cabinet Minister in the Vajpayee Government. Jailed during the Emergency, Singh was the president of the BJP's youth wing, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha. A two-term President, Singh saw the elevation of Narendra Modi as the party's PM candidate and delivered BJP's biggest elections victory in 2014. Since then, as India's Home Minister, he has ushered in a new phase in the country's security where both internal and external threats have been minimised. Under Singh, the Red menace from Naxalites and Maoists has been nearly wiped out, and the state of Jammu and Kashmir saw the first local body elections in over a decade. Read on to know more about one of the tallest politicians in present-day India. In a career spanning nearly fifty years, Rajnath Singh has not only witnessed but also played a significant role in shaping the history of this country. Drawing from a vast amount of research and in-depth interviews, Gautam Chintamani's engaging narrative reveals for the first-time a politician who never shied away from doing the right thing.

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Ebury Press

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0670092363

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Offend, Shock, or Disturb

Free Speech under the Indian Constitution

By: Gautam Bhatia

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Offend, Shock, or Disturb

Free Speech under the Indian Constitution

By: Gautam Bhatia

Offend, Shock, or Disturb is a comprehensive examination of free speech under the Indian Constitution. It explores Indian free speech jurisprudence from a doctrinal, comparative, and philosophical perspective. Taking as its point of departure the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of speech and expression—Articles 19(1)(a) and 19(2) of the Constitution of India—the book discusses, clause by clause, the development of law from colonial times to present-day controversies. Issues relating to public order, sedition, obscenity and pornography, hate speech, film and online censorship, privacy and defamation, the contempt of court, the nature of speech and the relationship between free speech and economic structure, and the inter-relationships between them have been comprehensively examined. As free speech campaigns gain intensity by the day, the book presents the myriad understandings and limitations of the free speech law, and suggests possible pathways for the future.

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Oxford University Press

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0199089523

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The New Political Elite

The Inconsequential MP?

By: Gautam Vohra

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The New Political Elite

The Inconsequential MP?

By: Gautam Vohra

Some Mps Are More Equal Than Others. A Truism That Is Applicable To All Walks Of Life, But More So In Relation To Our Man In Parliament. But Even The High Profile Mp Enjoys Hardly Any Power As A Legislator. As A Member Of Various Parliamentary Committees He May, Or May Not, Influence Policy, But There Is Little Doubt That These Do Not Enjoy The Clout They Did During The Nehru Era. By Contributing To Debates In The House, The Mp Of The Fifties Could Be Said To Have Had Impact On Policy, But This Is Hardly The Case Today. The Speeches That Cover A Wide Range Of Issues (And Given Considerable Space In This Volume) Are Often No More Than Routing Affairs In Support Of The Party Position, Adding Nothing Or Little Of Substance To The Subject Under Discussion. As For The Question Raised By The Np, He Is Fobbed Of, More Often Than Not, By Replies That Conceal More Than They Reveal, Replies Drafted Hurriedly By The Bureaucrat To Ensure That His Boss Does Not Get Embroiled In Any Controversy. Hence The Only Job Left To Him Is To Tackle The Demands Of His Voters. In Doing So He Is Often Stepping On The Toes Of The Mla Or The Municipal Councillor. As Things Are, He Is Not As Well Placed To Deliver The Goods As Them. He Has, In Effect, No Role To Play. It Is In This Context That The Author Has Posed The Question In The Title Of The Book, Asking Whether The New Mp, The Mp Of The Nineties, Is Of Any Consequence. Contents Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Role/ Functions Of Mps; Chapter 3: Impact On Policy; Chapter 4: Change In The Nature Of Elected Representative; Chapter 5: The Reluctant Mp; Chapter 6: Quality Of Debate; Chapter 7: Importance Of The Mp; Chapter 8: Socio-Economic Background; Chapter 9: Conclusion.

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8174790012

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