Opposites are said to attract but that may not be quite the reason for Peoples Democratic Party coming closer to Bhartiya Janta Party to form a government in Jammu and Kashmir. The marriage between these two ideologically extreme formations has
The victory of the Aam Admi Party has been lauded in mainstream media even culminating in a form of cult-hero worship. Paramita Banerjee interrogates the ideology, through which the ‘auraat’ gets subsumed under the category of ‘admi’ …. Well, that
Soumabrata Chatterjee talks to Amit Chaudhuri about travelling between genres, being a flaneur, and lots more. I recently read your article in The Guardian, ‘Travelling between Genres’, where you proclaimed that the act of writing is synonymous with freedom and
About a political resistance through culture….. By Shivani Nag. For long one has felt uncomfortable about the near-complete absence of crucial questions of our times in mainstream cinema – be it the continued practice of caste-based discrimination, condition of the working
Madhuja Mukherjee relates to us the story of Miss Ruby Myers who was not only the biggest star in 1920s but was the substance of myth and lore … Let us resume our stories of Miss Cinemawali with Miss Ruby
All India Bakchod v/s the real Bakchods The All India Bakchod controversy has introduced us to a fresh battalion of bakchods, who can be defined as the congenital members of Indian cinema and who otherwise tend to croon away to
Without the huge budget usually required to make their electoral campaign attractive or without the much-hyped Modi wave, AAP and Arvind Kejriwal managed to elicit a spontaneous rush of voters. Some numbers pulled up and analysed by Arunava Sinha… No
New windows of hope have reopened and the fissures in the behemoth, till now backed by the media and corporates, seem to be cracking. A wave of relief has swept India, writes Amit Sengupta from Delhi… Ahankaar Ishwar ka bhojan hota
Meandering through the pre-2014 JNU Students’ Union (JNUS) election juloos on the busy ring road of Jawaharlal Nehru University, what got me thinking was a Left progressive party poster, condemning atrocities against a Dalit boy in a school in Tamil
Imagine a villain taking all humanity captive, and slowly, in full view of the others, forcing individuals to jump to death, one after another heh-heh-heh, off a steep cliff. How many human beings do you estimate would need to be