‘Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is turning the internet against democracy’ charts out the growth of the internet, its evolution and the new debates and crises it opens up for discourses on democracy, freedom and the state. Its author, Professor Robert
Prof. Noam Chomsky, through a very brief window over email, spoke to Pritha Kejriwal, looking back at some of the comments he made in the previous interview, and shedding some light on what the future might hold for us… Click
Click to Read Part I Prof Chomsky, the last time you spoke to us, the Arab Spring was just unfolding and you had said, it was the people’s response to a corrupt, authoritarian pro-Western regime, which was tacitly
I was reading somewhere that Bela Tarr’s Turin Horse inspired you to such an extent that you got his sound designer to do the sound for Ship of Theseus. In Turin Horse, the howling wind almost becomes a character in the film. When I’m
We planned to meet and do a Sridhar/Thayil interview at the now closed but soon to re-open, ‘The Living room’ in Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi. A few days back, we had just played at a festival together, so I
One of the few writer-journalists, Pico Iyer, whose reportage, essays, books; we keep going back to, talks on exile, Buddhism and definitely the future of journalism. You were born in California, you have an Indian origin, and you have
The author of such epical books as Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Andrew Solomon is a writer and activist in mental health, the arts and LGBT rights. In this
Other than being Bollywood’s celebrity photographer, who is Dabboo Ratnani? I’m a father, a husband, a biker, a DJ and a gizmo freak. How would you describe your signature style? To capture people candidly rather than in a staged way.
Professor with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sherry Turkle has continuously explored the psychological dimension to human-technology relationship. In this age of simulated sex, 3D and sociable robots, are we headed for a new meltdown? Have we lost conversation? A ten minute
From being a gentleman’s sport to being just another reality TV show, Suresh Menon has witnessed cricket turning into a poorly functioning democracy. He talks about selection, class, administration and all that bothers the game… If we start off