modern – Itisaras

Beyond Glamour: hassles of a film producer

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Arushi Kapoor 0 Comments 3rd National Film Awards, Academy Award winner, artists, Bahubali, Best Bengali Feature Film, Best Feature Film, budget, Cinema, creativity, determination, director, Entertainment, expense, feature films, filmmaker, films, glamour, graphic artist, industry, lyricist, modern, music composer, Oscar, Pather Panchali, producer, production, Satyajit Ray, screenwriter, special effects, VFX

The film industry entails a lot of struggle along with its glamour. There is a lot of emotional, physical and monetary capital which goes into film making. Unlike today, there were times without VFX. What drove the director and the team to the culmination of films? How did they manage? Well, an Academy Award Winner has his narrative to share.

Culture

Handloom –A Revolution or a fiasco?

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Editor 0 Comments ajrakh print, ancient craft, Ancient Indian culture, artistry, arts of India, artwork, Aurangzeb, crafts of India, creativity, Dastkar bazaar, designs, economic sector, economy, employment, fabric, figurines, globalisation, Gujarat, hand loom, Hand woven clothes, india, Indian culture, Indian history, Indus valley civilization, jamdani, khadi, Mahatma Gandhi, mechanisation, modern, modernisation, Mohenjo-Daro, Mohenjo-Daro Priest King sculpture, muslin, patterns, power looms, Princess Zeb-un-Nisa, Rajasthan, sindh, Swadeshi Movement, Tradition, weaver

Handloom still holds finesse as an ancient Indian craft. Tracing its history, this article brings forth hand woven clothing’s charm even in modern India. Celebrating the 6th National
Handloom Day, we are here with another insight into the artistic realm of our handloom industry
– a revolution or fiasco?

Society

Stereotyping Clothing: Defining Social, Intellectual Status and Modernity

June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 Arushi Kapoor 4 Comments attire, attires, backward, British, British government, city person, clothes, colonial, colonial powers, conservative, elite, equality, fashion, flip flops, generalisations, intellectual, jeans, judgements, Lala Deen Dayal, Lifestyle, middle class, modern, modern girl, modernity, privileged status, security, short dress, social mobility, social practice, social status, Society, stereotypes, stereotyping, traditional, trend, upper class, village person, vogue, western world

“Underlying the present quest for form and pattern is the basic assumption that dress is a systematic means of transmission of information about the wearer.”
M.L Damhorst rightly articulated that a person’s dressing speaks about his or her personality. Or does it really? Lets’ trace this stereotyping history till contemporary “modern” world.