You might ask why we chose to go to Dharamshala to cover a film festival and that too as our cover story. Well, it is our experience in this magazine that the interesting things we discover invariably happen to be at a good distance from the big cities. The problem is that they don’t get reported on and talked about. When it comes to film festivals and literary festivals, they have become the monopoly of a few. Corporate funding completes the circle of influence that decides what we will see and hear and read. It is not. . .