Dumbing Down the Indian Media and Khabar Lahariya
Over the last two decades, roughly coinciding with the period of economic liberalization, there has been…
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The Last Sin
One wonders what Gordon Gekko would have thought about the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement. A minor…
Chandralekha: Rainbow on the roadside
Here’s a little detour. This isn’t a chronicle of a life or the retelling of a…
Figments of a Dirty imagination
Vidya…Vidya… and Vidya! There are 2 worlds. One before boombaat Silky Vidya and the one now…!…
The Girl with the dragon tattoo- How Fincher delivered again
The “feel-bad movie of the season” – that’s how one of the early trailers accurately advertised…
Why This Hullabaloo?
Never before in the history of independent India have so many once-influential politicians, businesspersons and bureaucrats…
Against the Stalinism of ideologies
Our lives no longer feel ground under them.At ten paces you can’t hear our words. But…
Football Academies In India
It is boom time for Indian football. The Liverpool Coaching Academy in India is being launched…
The Adventures of Tintin: The secret of the Unicorn
The Tintin comic books created by Herge (Belgian artist Georges Remi) has more than 350 million…
Wings of Freedom
People of all classes and tribes in Afghanistan, torn between foreign invasion and regional terrorism, still…