A broken god lies on the riverbed. Drenched in the incessant downpour, Ragini (Aishwarya Rai) asks the god for the strength to hate. “Don’t show bad people in good light. Don’t show them as truthful,” ...

About 170 km from Punjab’s capital, Chandigarh, lies the small town of Kapurthala, where every Dussehra, a group of young men wear black armbands to protest against “Raavan Dahan”, the customary ...

The saturnine effigy of ‘Raavan’ stands small and scuzzy. It no longer looks able-boiled as was years before and stands at one corner conspicuously mocked by the children of its grotesqueness; in ...