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Film still from While We Watched. Courtesy of Cinetic Media

A Broken System: Vinay Shukla’s ‘While We Watched’ and Other Recent Indian Documentaries Face Challenges At Home

In 2018, like many others in India, filmmaker Vinay Shukla stopped watching the news. Since the right-leaning Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came into

April 15, 2016. In front of Bakirköy Women’s Prison, where my colleague and dear friend Esra Mungan, a professor of psychology at Boğaziçi University, was imprisoned. The writing on my fingers reads: “Freedom for Pens,” meaning freedom for those who express their thoughts in writing, which is a basic right.

Field Recording: We Do Not Accept!

In July 2021, a letter calling attention to my unlawful and unjust dismissal from my teaching position of 14 years at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul

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