Midnight Rants of a Feverish Mind
What is this world where I suddenly find myself, helpless and in love with nothing but…
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Say What?
The speech codes that govern free expression today are strangling public discourse, says Koli Mitra.When we…
Picking Manto’s Pocket
Despite occasional flashes of brilliance, Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s biopic of the great writer is an ultimately…
The Rusty Sword
Meghna Gulzar’s ‘Talvar’ is a mature, incisive and revealing look at our society at its ugliest….
Sarmat
By Umar Lateef MisgarSarmat was about to rescue his crush from the kidnappers when a loud…
About A Rescue Act
Koral Dasgupta’s maiden venture in fiction is a tolerable, if slightly filmy, love story, but the…
The Curious Case of the Indian Republic
Whether it is the virile fantasies of the chaddi nincompoops in power or the platitudes of…
I Want to Touch Light
Stray notes on days and dreams. Lying on my bed in the warm glow of the…
Presidential Predicaments
Kalam and Kanye embody the binary of good minority/bad minority. On 28 August, the New Delhi…
Death of an Intellectual
A spectre of crass, predictable, inevitable irrationality is once again haunting the nation, says Amit Sengupta.This…