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It Was Just an Accident, a film by Jafar Panâhi
Jafar Panâhi is an Iranian film-maker and actor whose films have frequently been banned or censored in the country and who has been imprisoned twice for ‘propaganda against the Islamic Republic’. Even under legal restriction, Panâhi continued to make films without permission, sometimes produced
The politicisation of cricket in South Asia
Cricket, a sporting contest followed avidly across South Asia, is now increasingly shaped by political rivalries and state power, as Ashis Ray reports.
Asia’s Pride and Prejudice with love in the shadows
Gay Asians of both genders were later than Americans and Europeans to campaign for LGBTQ+ rights. Now they lead forceful movements in several Asian countries. Rayeesa Daulah reports.When Asian American actor BD Wong won a Tony Award for his 1988 Broadway debut as a gender-bending Chinese spy in gay playwright David Henry Hwang’s M Butterfly, no one imagined that Wong was actually gay.