Now showing at a theatre of the absurd near you
So, young Indians cannot tell their friends what they ‘like’ on Facebook, without being “pre-screened” by Harvard types (or hauled into a police station by Shiv Sena goons). So, bloggers …
So, young Indians cannot tell their friends what they ‘like’ on Facebook, without being “pre-screened” by Harvard types (or hauled into a police station by Shiv Sena goons). So, bloggers …
It’s a Hindi movie called Jan Leva 555. It’s a “romantic musical mystery thriller spanning 555 years”—and 15 songs. It’s due for release on October 19. And it stars our …
Looking at all the shrieking and shouting on television (and reading the newspapers), it would seem as if the only people who have a view on the major debates of …
After five days of dominating the Jaipur literary festival without even stepping foot in it, Sir Salman Rushdie will bring the curtain down on the final day; he will address …
On the eve of the 62nd anniversary of the “sovereign socialist secular republic”, a nice little knife has been stuck into the heart of liberal India by goondas and moral …
Today, 8 March 2010—94 years and 6 months after he was born in Pandharpur, a Marathi manoos gave up the citizenship of his motherland, by returning his passport in Doha. …
Apropos the plight of M/s Husain, Nasrin and Rushdie, the BJP strategist cum columnist Swapan Dasgupta offers this comment in today’s Telegraph: “60 years of a democratic Constitution should have …
The republication of Taslima Nasrin‘s 2007 essay on the burqa in Kannada Prabha, the riots that resulted in the death of two in Shimoga, the reported filing of an FIR …
Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma of the University of Hyderabad and author of “Terrifying Vision”: M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS and India, in Mail Today: “There is a significant difference between saying that …
We could offer several pretentious reasons why this poster for the upcoming romantic-comedy Love Khichdi appears here out of the blue. 1) Because writer-director Srinivas Bhashyam is namma huduga, a …
The licence-quota-permit raj may have been consigned to the dustbin (at least in theory), but Victorian regulation runs deep in the Indian psyche, especially when it comes to the media: …
Not every member/ supporter of the saffron brotherhood, it seems, wants to turn the Mangalore pub disgrace into a predictable, boilerplate, caveman discussion on the threat to Indian/ Hindu values. …
Not that they are sensitive to these things, but the highest court in the land—the Supreme Court of India—has delivered a stinging slap on the menacing faces of India’s moral …
She is 82. She is Manjamma. She is from Karnataka, the cradle of coffee in the country. Her ambition, according to The Telegraph, Calcutta, was to sip a cup of …