Delhi is a city of extremes. Be it the weather, lifestyle or emotions – everything is found in contrasts. I have been living a moderate life in this city for the last five years. A close examination of the daily
University spaces are generally unlike any other kind of space functioning around and through us embedded in it. I am not saying that they are better spaces as certain researchers and students claim them to be but, that they work
Amitabh Bachchan’s open letter to his granddaughters Navya and Aradhya on Teachers’ Day, penned in the context of his recently released film, Pink has received the limelight of the nation’s attention. As usual, the nation is divided into the politically
With just about few weeks to go for the American presidential elections, both the Democrat and Republican candidates seem to be running up against a thorny wall, shifting positions and changing goal-posts, fudging on facts and objectivity, rewriting their
The tragopan last week had heard The rumour from another bird -Most probably a quail or sparrow: Such birds have gossip in their marrow- That man had hatched a crazy scheme To mar their land and dam their stream, To
In his Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies, David Morley tries to look at television not as a model of infotainment but the act of viewing it. What he attempts to underline is that while every kind of televisual practice invokes
In July 2010, the National Assembly of France passed an ordinance which prohibited the complete concealment of the face in public spaces. Helmets, balaclavas and masks were banned along with the face-covering veils like naqabs to help in public identification.
In the 21st century, Internet culture has transformed much of the world – and been criticised even more. Social media is considered vapid and ephemera by many, and criticised for dominating people’s lives with no positive impact whatsoever. Such views
With Sakshi Malik winning the bronze medal for women’s free-style wrestling and P.V. Sindhu bagging the silver for women’s badminton, India finally arrived at its long-awaited victorious closure in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Quite predictably, the exemplary achievements of
Some time back, as the month of July came to a close, two politicians from Tamil Nadu got into a fight at the Delhi airport. They were waiting to board their flight back to their home state, and their war