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Posted on 13 December 2013 by churumuri
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From Bindiganavile to Jind via Central Asia

Where is hometown in the world of elastic geographies? What is mother tongue in the era of mixed parentage? In this, the first chapter from his new book, Homeless on …

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Posted on 2 December 2013 by churumuri
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The four forms of Indian political populism

Mukul Kesavan in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “Populist politics in India is of roughly three sorts: majoritarian, Mandalist and Congressite. Narendra Modi’s populism is clearly of the first sort. His appeal …

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Posted on 27 July 2012 by churumuri
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The best actor in the history of Hindi cinema is…

Indian film fans and critics and “writers” can barely think beyond Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Hassan, Rajesh Khanna, et al when talking of the “greatest actor” produced by Bombay’s …

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Posted on 2 December 2011 by churumuri
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Liberalistion, Sachin Tendulkar & the elusive 100

Muttiah Muralitharan took 1,334 international wickets: 800 in Tests and 534 in one-dayers. Shane Warne had 1,001: 708 in Tests and 293 in one-dayers. Yet, no one remembers any of …

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Posted on 14 May 2011 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Do we like our ‘icons’ single?

“The victory of Jayalalitha and Mamata Banerjee means that India has three chief ministers who are women. They are single, they don’t have children and they are routinely represented in …

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Posted on 17 January 2011 by churumuri
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Does IPL need Bollywood or the vice-versa?

After submitting himself to the manufactured thrills of Twenty20 cricket in South Africa, Mukul Kesavan writes in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “The IPL’s apologists tell us that the Bombay film industry’s …

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Posted on 1 January 2011 by churumuri
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Why some of us just love to hate Sunil Gavaskar

For all his titanic batting feats, Sunil Gavaskar doesn’t quite earn the automatic applause of Kannadigas, partly because, well, he batted left-handed against Karnataka in a Ranji Trophy match that …

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Posted on 1 October 2010 by churumuri
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High Court verdict or Panchayat pronouncement?

The reliance of the Allahabad high court on the “faith and belief of Hindus”—that Lord Rama was born in the “area covered under the central dome of the disputed structure”—in …

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Posted on 28 September 2010 by churumuri
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Hindutvavadis have gorged on Ayodhya since ’47

On the day the judiciary put an end to the dilatory tactics of the executive in the Ayodhya title dispute , by ruling that the Allahabad High Court can go …

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Posted on 10 September 2009 by churumuri
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‘Public apetite whets blood-thirst of killer-cops’

Mukul Kesavan in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “What should worry us about the 2004 killings on the outskirts of Ahmedabad is that they are one more example of the impunity with …

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Posted on 19 August 2009 by churumuri
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How our buddhijeevis became one-tongue ponies

In May this year, the Bangalore-based historian Ramachandra Guha delivered a lecture in Delhi on “The rise and fall of the bilingual intellectual”, lamenting the demise in modern India of  …

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Posted on 18 December 2008 by churumuri
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Greatest batsman in Test match cricket today?

Mukul Kesavan in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “The true significance of the [Madras Test] match was that it marked Virender Sehwag’s unofficial coronation as the greatest Test batsman in contemporary cricket…. …

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Posted on 31 October 2008 by churumuri
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‘Godse’s way of thinking is alive and influential’

The following is the full, unexpurgated text of the convocation address made by the Kannada literatteur Prof U.R. Anantha Murthy at the Jamia Milia Islamia on Thursday, 30 October 2008: …

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Posted on 4 September 2008 by churumuri
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Not winning, it’s the not drinking that matters

Mukul Kesavan in The Telegraph: “Watching Abhinav Bindra [at the Beijing Olympics], I suddenly thought of how much more exciting dart championships on British television used to be: large men …

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Posted on 15 May 2008 by churumuri
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Mallya gharana will never replace Kirana gharana

In The Telegraph, Calcutta, Mukul Kesavan compares Twenty20’s threat to Test cricket with bhangra pop’s to classical music. Without serving a long apprenticeship to an ustad or a guru from …

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Posted on 24 April 2008 by churumuri
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Dear God: Here are 4 good reasons to throttle IPL

Mukul Kesavan, son of the first national librarian of independent India, the Mysore-born B.S. Kesavan, in The Telegraph: “The English Premier League’s audience has been built over a century of …

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Posted on 17 April 2008 by churumuri
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What if India had done to Kashmir what China…?

Mukul Kesavan in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “The controversy over Tibet is a controversy about pluralism. The main allegations against China — that it has tried to alter the demographic balance …

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Posted on 7 February 2008 by churumuri
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The world’s first truly globalised president-to-be?

Mukul Kesavan on Barack Obama in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “The more I read about him, the more he seemed like a mythical creature constituted out of a politically correct wish-list. …

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Posted on 31 January 2008 by churumuri
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A bird in hand is better than two in the Bush

Mukul Kesavan in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “Indians don’t think much of Ricky Ponting for several reasons. His first tour was dogged by rumours of bad behaviour, his second tour was …

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