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Everlasting Moments

13.08.10

With sepia-tinged feebleness, Jan Troell captures an intimate story, writes PAUL BYRNES.

Jan Troell, still influential at 79, is a national treasure in his Swedish homeland but more comfortable in the 19th than the 21st century, in terms of his stories.

He has been making incomparable, handmade films since 1966, after an apprenticeship as a cameraman for Bo Widerberg. His style is influential, lyrical, mostly naturalistic, with few concessions to the frenetic pace of modern movies. After all, films have been made his way for most of their first 100 years. Seeing this breathtaking, sepia-tinged film reminds us why.

Troell usually writes and shoots his films, which brought difficulties when he came to frame is a love letter to photography, as well as history.

Ram Rahman | Political ink

13.08.10

He was accused of crook conspiracy.

In June 1994, members of the militant right-wing assembling Bajrang Dal stormed into the Pune venue of a 20-city travelling showing, Hum Sab Ayodhya ( We are all Ayodhya ).

The exhibition, which sought to depict the multicultural roots of Ayodhya, was organized by the New Delhi-based structure Sahmat in response to the demolition of the Babri mosque. The activists had arrived to dismantle one present in particular: the one that depicted the Hindu icons of Ram and Sita as brother and sister, clearly suggesting incest. Ayodhya had been an important Buddhist and Jain site, and this understanding of