The critically acclaimed Bangladeshi film, "Robibaar" (On a Sunday), recently won two awards at the Madrid International Film Festival 2020
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Who Defines Where Home is? Confronting Partition Trauma and its Aftermath Eight Decades Later
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It is true that only a handful of newspapers have the resources and persistence to pursue big stories of the kind that came alive in the EC exposé. Nevertheless, to the extent that it inspires others to pursue even smaller news stories with steadfastness this could potentially redeem the otherwise sordid state of affairs in the Indian media.
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