Dadri As Development
Mohammed Akhlaq’s lynching wasn’t a historical anomaly. As Walter Benjamin put it, “the ‘state of emergency’…
Pop Goes the Culture
Presidential Predicaments
Kalam and Kanye embody the binary of good minority/bad minority. On 28 August, the New Delhi…
Guests, Some More Equal Than Others
The new Atithi Devo Bhava ads might be slicker than the original campaign, but carry some…
Of Swimming Pools and Land Pools
The shared logic of SEZs and Smart Cities must be rejected if we are to avoid…
Consume With Care
The cause of environmentalism has been embraced by precisely those who are doing the most environmental…
The Torrid, Horrid (and Sordid) Days of Summer
We need to make sense of the senseless violence that breaks out in this time of…
Food Fights
The manufactured controversy around Shobhaa Dé’s tweets reveals the extent to which the political discourse in…
Self-Inflicted Wounds
Taking a cue from the recent leaked audio file of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, Thomas Crowley…
Days of the (Sarguna)Raj
Wilbur Sargunaraj is a YouTube sensation and his new film, Simple Superstar just released in late…
Haider and its Haters
The critical and mainstream reception of Haider was overwhelmingly positive barring some questions on the politico-theoretical…