Goa, Nov. 29 -- Vivek Menezes

There's no way to stay strictly neutral about the unique, homegrown The Peacock daily newspaper at the International Film Festival of India each year in Panjim, because I'm part of the small team which launched it 11 years ago, and still comes together with great dedication to put it out each successive edition. The record speaks for itself, however: Entertainment Society of Goa prints 9000 copies, and almost every single one is taken home as a collector's item. Unlike the other printed material accumulating in vast drifts of wasted paper, The Peacock is carefully collated to be re-read once again in the delegates' hometowns across India and the world. Part of the reason, no doubt, is its urgent coverage of ...