The Textbook Wars
Sometimes censorship is a collective effort. It is not always imposed top-down by an all-powerful…
2016
In The Absence Of Time
Some days the gods feel like philosophers, they grow on the city and its surroundings…
Policing the Self
Censorship: the practice of silencing/ obliterating something because it is considered inappropriate. It is practiced variously:…
Censoring Gay Lives
The glorified attic was bursting with people. Some sat huddled together on the floor. A lucky few…
Sexuality, Anarchy and Censorship
The study of Bollywood has been around questions of spectatorship, the changing ideas of morality and…
Grappling With Racism
Nothing divides the critics like a Salman Khan film. This year’s biggest film, about an underachieving…
The Great Dalit Defiance
What is however truly unprecedented is the mass Dalit uprising across several districts and talukas of…
A Hero’s Farewell
I have heard of huge crowds outside the houses of film stars and celebrated athletes. I…
Trump and the Muslim Question
America couldn’t have anticipated the arrival of Trump. The presumptive Republican nominee for the 2016 US…
Dreams to Dust
All Of Us In Our Own Lives Manjushree Thapa Aleph Rs 499 | 213 pp…