Indian Cinematograph Committee
The Indian Cinematograph Committee Evidence and Report 1927-1928
This is how power is eclipsed: in a moment of vivid realism, between the waning of one fantasy of governance and its replacement by the next; in an instant when the world springs free of its mooring of dreams and reveals itself to be girdled in the pathways of survival and self-preservation.
Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
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