History In Film

‘Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds’: Truth and lies in Oppenheimer’s Gita moment

Did the American physicist turn to this particular verse in the Gita as a crutch to justify his role in the construction of the atomic bomb?

Mani Rao
· Aug 05, 2023 · 08:05 am
That Indian woman photographing Mountbatten in ‘Viceroy’s House’? It’s probably Homai Vyarawalla

India’s first female photojournalist makes a fleeting appearance in Gurinder Chadha’s movie about Indian independence and the Partition.

Scroll Staff
· Aug 16, 2017 · 08:15 am