Author: jerry-pinto

Jerry Pinto is a poet, author, journalist and film critic based in Mumbai.

Phantasms of the living

No one strives for truth in cinema because reality is simply too complex for good storytelling Be it Lagaan (a period drama) or Swades (a social drama), I have just...

jerry-pinto - August 31, 2008

Culture

Two images

jerry-pinto - August 31, 2007

Minorities Commission forwards CJP’s complaint against Tejasvi Surya Bengaluru DGP

Communalism January 11, 2022

World Against Trump & US: Jerusalem

Freedom December 22, 2017

Farmers declare FCI Bachao Divas on April 5

Farm and Forest March 30, 2021

India 131st out of 180 countries on child survival rankings: WHO-UNICEF-Lancet report

Children February 21, 2020

In Focus

ALL STORIES

Farm and Forest

Candlelight protests in Greater Noida demand immediate release of jailed farmers

Aman Khan - December 20, 2024

Communalism

Uttar Pradesh’s new tactics for harassment: Electricity theft charges, strategic revival of temple, opening up of 1978 Sambhal communal riots cases

Tanya Arora - December 20, 2024

Farm and Forest

Farmers Declare Punjab Bandh on Dec 30 Amid Deteriorating Health of Dallewal

Ravi Kaushal - December 20, 2024

Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

State-sanctioned brutality? Dalit communities targeted in Parbhani “combing operations”, women, children abused

sabrangindia - December 19, 2024

Hate Speech

CJI Khanna apprises full court of SC on Collegium meeting with Justice Yadav

sabrangindia - December 19, 2024

Politics

Dr BR Ambedkar: How the ongoing tussle between the BJP and Congress is both limited & superficial

vidya bhushan rawat - December 19, 2024

Environment

From Madrid to Baku: A chronicle of inadequate climate action at UN Conferences

A Legal Researcher - December 18, 2024

Rights

Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill tabled in assembly, using the myth of “urban naxals” to supress dissent?

CJP Legal Research Team - December 18, 2024