Hope. How easily it flies out from the ledge of a tired tongue. Hope is the thing with feathers, after all. That bird, uncertain of survival, has left the tableaux now.
The Bengaluru stadium stampede that killed 11 exposes the deadly convergence of crowd psychology, state failure, caste-coded fandom, and the violent spectacle of cricket in a country where identity and sport collapse into each other.
'Phool ka Chand' is a carefully choreographed, feature-length hand-drawn animated film on the life and music of noted classical vocalist, Kumar Gandharva. While The Journey of a Note has been written as a companion piece to the film, it is not imagined as a ‘response’ or a ‘review’