What’s your story?

This week on CW, Sadhvi Sharma argues in a Battle in Print essay that India’s peculiar form of identity politics is a consequence not of insurmountable differences between religions, castes and ethnicities, but rather the collapse in the past generation of the overarching political narrative that emerged with independence. Sarah Boyes and Dan Schneider review two films set amid political strife but more profoundly about dislocation and loneliness, Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, and Theo Angelopoulos’ The Suspended Step Of The Stork. Mark Carrigan reviews a London exhibition about the perennial human phenomenon of scapegoating, and Giulia Merlo welcomes the German refusal of naturalism to the London stage.

14 January 2010