History In Film
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‘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
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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