Living Tales of Ancient Myths
It is a cold, cold summer night where I am typing this, in a centrally heated…
July, 2016
The Northeast in Bollywood: A Visual Regime
In post-Independence India, the cultural policy vis-à-vis the Northeast emphasised upon the category of the “folk”,…
The Trump Card
The various definitions of a trump card include: a valuable resource that may be used, especially…
Society is not a Carnivorous Flower
In the epical and revolutionary ‘One-Dimensional Man’, and in his liberating, lyrical, long piece called ‘An…
Trumped at their own game
It’s easy to understand why liberals or libertarians may be alarmed by Donald Trump, but why do…
‘It doesn’t matter what you think!’
“Wrestling is a sum of spectacles, of which no single one is a function: each…
A Passage to America
Route I Every step we took was one away from the songs, old dances, memories,…
The PTSD Generation
As a kid right out of high school, I became a sworn fan of America and…
Uncle Sam the Ambivalent
I was a teenager in the 1970s, when Indo-US relations reached a nadir following President Nixon’s open…
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