Lights! Camera! Obscura!

The Akira Kurosawa black-and-white classic Rashomon narrates one event in many different ways, each time from the point of view of a new witness or participant. It’s a parable of perceptual fluidity: in the end, no one can be sure what happened or did not happen. The trading of charges and lawsuits between the Jindal industrial group and the Zee TV news channel is taking on a similar multiplicity of perspective and truth.  Jindal alleges the news channel demanded crores of rupees to withhold coverage of the former’s naming in the coal block allocation scam.

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