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Daily Archives: 24 May 2017

Posted on 24 May 2017 by churumuri
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How a new train was named ‘Vishwa Manava’ in these insular times


Fifteen years ago I wrote my obituary—all right, the first draft of my obituary. I wrote it, not after I received an intimation of impending mortality, but after I read …

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How ‘Bahubali’ glorifies Hindutva’s regressive view of the caste order


Minus the hype, the commercial success of Bahubali is frankly baffling. As India’s most discerning newspaper reader J. Mathrubhootam has said, who in his right mind would want to  want to see 500 computerised …

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Once upon a time, when a traffic offender said he was JNU professor…


The economist Prabhat Patnaik has a fine piece in The Telegraph, Calcutta, on the growing anti-intellectualism in the world. There was a time in Delhi when an absent-minded professor, like …

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