Let us begin by questioning some purported facts pertaining to the Internet. One such so-called fact is that the Internet is accessible to only the upper and middle classes. That this is far from the truth is easily discernible from
Robert Waterman McChesney is Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. An author, activist and journalist, he is a co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organisation, and was one of the
Autobiography of a Mad Nation Sriram Karri Fingerprint Rs 450 | 381 pp Autobiography of a Mad Nation is an ambitious book that seeks to be larger than just the pages it is ensconced in. But therein lays the
When I was a child, my relationship with my mother was often strained. I was five when she signed me up for lessons at the Maharashtra Lawn Tennis Association. I was scared of my coach, who would often berate me
Tanu Weds Manu: Returns Director: Anand L Rai Starring: Kangana Ranaut, R Madhavan, Jimmy Shergill, Deepak Dobriyal, Swara Bhaskar, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub Rating: 2.5/5 “Haalat dekhi hai? Adrakh ho gaya hai yeh aadmi! Kahin se bhi badh raha hai.”
Appreciating feminism is not the same as respecting women. A crude analogy would be that appreciating feminism is like life itself. It requires labour, extensive study, learning to unmake whatever you have crammed till that point in your life. It
“With whose love are you smitten, O sea? For among the woods of the shore where like the small-headed goats from the Pooli land, Seagulls thronged and fished, Your waves kept lashing Against the screw pines Bearing white blossoms
Bombay Velvet Director: Anurag Kashyap Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Karan Johar, Kay Kay Menon, Manish Choudhary, Siddhartha Basu, Satyadeep Mishra Rating: 2.5/5 This is not a review of Bombay Velvet,” begins a rant by YRF exec and film critic
Her gaze struck me, almost by mistake, as I was leaning against one of the white columns of Connaught Place. I saw her seeing others and we looked at each other, perhaps for a little more than three seconds. I
The feminist struggle in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, now known as the second wave of feminism, was marked by the beauty dilemma. Susan Brownmiller, a pioneering American feminist, expresses the debate succinctly in the following passage: