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" Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. " - Eric Hobsbawm

" ‘Allama’ is a period film set in the 12th century, for which I had to sport a different look. The story is about a mystic saint and Vachana poet Allama Prabhu and I play a dancer in it. " - Meghana Raj

" Heritage is something martial-arts films don’t often talk about. " - Wong Kar-wai

" Im generally of the view that we should know the names of those who enacted and justified imperial power – but only if the glorifying can be supplemented with plaques that tell us the shameful histories of, for example active participation in the slave trade or highly successful and profitable lives extracted from slave plantations. " - Michael Rosen