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Nihal Singh: the wordsmith wedded to the word till late in the evening
When you went for a walk or jog in New Delhi’s fabulous Lodhi Garden in the late evening, there was a sureshot way of checking if all was well with …
Journalism #101: How the media should stand up to the mad dogs of hatred
On a personal journey across white America, writer Gary Younge came face to face with alt-right leader Richard Spencer @Channel4 Thurs 10pm pic.twitter.com/25f0gHWmjO — Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 7, …
Donald Trump is looking more and more like a lead from a Greek tragedy
By SHASHIKIRAN MULLUR Minutes ago, my wife came home. She’d been to a trade association dinner. She’s on the phone since she came in, talking business. Talking, she opened the …
‘Where is Malgudi? Where we all wish we lived’
On the 10th anniversary of his passing away, The Guardian, London, has a long piece on the legendary creator of the fictional town of Malgudi, R.K. Narayan, with churumuri‘s own …
ARUNDHATI ROY: Why I said what I said
By ARUNDHATI ROY I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s papers say that I may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent public …
Hopefully, the Cochin team will do the needful
Kanishk Tharoor in The Guardian, London, on the preponderance, rather the monopoly of “white” cheer girls in the Indian Premier League: “The choice made by IPL organisers in this regard …
Are “Shining” Indians supersensitive to criticism?
At least in one Nobel laureate’s book, Indians are an argumentative lot. But, have we, as a people, become too uncritical of our failures, too unquestioning of the advertising—and “super-sensitive …
CHURUMURI POLL: An Oscar for Shah Rukh Khan?
1) A superhit film* centred around 9/11. 2) Distributed by Hollywood biggie, Fox Searchlight. 3) A protagonist with Asperger’s Syndrome. 4) A mainstream film starring a Muslim which tackles anti-Islamic …
A satirist takes on the star of the millennium
The reverberations of Amitabh Bachchan‘s blog comments on the Academy Award-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire are now being felt in the “cesspool” of Indian journalism. In his reaction to the movie, …
What did Pattabhi Jois have that PVN did not?
Journalism, it is said in jest, is basically about letting readers who did not know that a certain somebody was alive that a certain somebody is dead. Even by that …
All that you wanted to know about Aravind Adiga
There’s nothing like a nice little surprise. And a nice little surprise this week is a Madras-born, Mangalore-bred, Tamil-loving, Kannada-speaking former journalist who has studied at Oxford, Princeton and is …
‘Obama is the change America has tried to hide’
Alice Walker on why she backs Barack Obama in The Guardian: “I want a grown-up attitude to Cuba, for instance, a country and people I love. I want an end …
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