Weekend recommendations for August 5

Mostly short films this time.

As I am not entirely well, this will be shorter than my other posts.

I bought Bill McGuire’s Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide and started reading it. (Had to pay ~ 3$ more at Kobo compared to Amazon, which I am trying to avoid as my way of protesting against the dominance of the tech oligopoly of the world). Expect my next post to be dominated by content from the book.

At NewsGuff in Clubhouse, I have talked about Jaggi Vasudev in two parts. Likely, I will complete it with part 3 on Sunday. If you haven’t already, you may like to listen to the sessions in replays at The Speakers club and join the discussion in coming days.

Do you want to know about the understated but massive risk of nuclear escalation in the world? Listen to the 5 part podcast series from Mathew Side (6th July to 5th August) in BBC Radio 4.

This week, I also watched the remarkable Nepali movie Pani Photo written and directed by Khagendra Lamichhane. One of the finest portrayals of the post-conflict wounds and scars in Nepal. Couple of shows seem to be still left in QFX centers. Please go and watch if you are yet to.

Finally, some short film recommendations:

On how to process and proceed with domestic violence:

Two sublime portrayals of love and loss:

On classism (and casteism?) of middle class society: