(March 22, 2025) Under the glistening lights of Florida’s South Asian International Film Festival 2025, independent filmmaker Sanjay Arora stood humbled yet proud as his film 2 Khet (Two Farms) won the Best Director Award in the Short Film category. Directed by Jagat...
(October 16, 2024) A few days ago, Suman Sharma, a resident of Dharavi, found herself presenting a report at Dharavi Diary’s monthly meeting. Fluent in English, she took on the center stage and presented her team’s work with much elan. But she wasn’t...
(August 3, 2024) Growing up, Neeraja Raj would draw, write, play musical instruments and sing – her imagination simply knew no bounds and needed as many outlets as it could get. The richness of her fantasy life more than shows up in her work –...
(March 14, 2023) About 13 years ago, when her first short film – Kavi – cracked the top five at the 2010 Academy Awards, Guneet Monga didn’t even have the means to travel to the United States of America to attend the event. The filmmaker wrote to...
(August 5, 2022) Growing up, Meghana was the kid who doodled in her notebooks while the classes would be going on. Creativity and art were what interested her the most. The only creative outlet she had at the time was the art class she had joined after school hours....
