Nothing divides the critics like a Salman Khan film. This year’s biggest film, about an underachieving Jat (Khan) and his love for Aarfa (Anushka Sharma), wrestling and himself (in precisely that order) continues to draw crowds. It also continues to
What is however truly unprecedented is the mass Dalit uprising across several districts and talukas of Gujarat which has shaken the BJP and the thick-skinned ruling regime in Delhi. This follows the ideologically regressive and ambivalent Patidar agitation which was
I have heard of huge crowds outside the houses of film stars and celebrated athletes. I have heard that people get a little crazy when they see their heroes, but I have never seen such a scene in Kashmir. There
America couldn’t have anticipated the arrival of Trump. The presumptive Republican nominee for the 2016 US Presidential Election is a breathing embarrassment to America’s self image, whose assertion of being a “true” American rests on the dismissive neglect of liberal
Emis aes ner czemich. Emis aes gooi laamich”—his arm was cut, he was shot—says a little girl to her mother sitting on the wooden bench in Srinagar’s Shri Maharja Hari Singh hospital. This little girl just saw a boy being
Twenty three dead, including at least one cop, almost more than 800 injured, most of them hit by bullet injuries, several shot in the eyes and abdomen, women, children and young men, many of them critical. Was shoot to kill
“Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.” —Karl Marx, The
After the horrific Orlando shootings, which left 50 dead, my Facebook feed was filled with posts about the massacre. This was hardly a time for levity, but many of the posts linked to a humor website. Not just any website,
Congratulations fellow patriots,” said the triumphant headmaster of the Brexiter School, Nigel Big-Mouthed Farage, after 52 percent Britons were convinced by him that divorcing the grand communal kitchen EU was better than having to put up with ubiquitous Romanian sarmale and Polish
In post-Independence India, the cultural policy vis-à-vis the Northeast emphasised upon the category of the “folk”, implying thereby that the indigenous cultures from the region were to be seen as archaic, stagnant and needed to preserved as such in their