“Kaala Pathar” is a film that deals with the conditions of the workers in coal mines and their exploitation by the capitalists.The film’s hero, Vijay (Amitabh Bachan) was a captain in a ship who has become a worker in Dhanraj Coal Mines, owned by Dhanraj Puri (Prem Chopra). He decided…

Kathe Kollwitz, one of whose works is shown on the cover of this issue of BLAST, was an artist of the oppressed.Barn on July 8, 1867 in Konigsberg, East Prussia, Kathe grew up in an atmosphere that was both religious as well as revolutionary. Her grandfather, though a devout Christian,…