#HawalaAtMidnight burst onto the social media just before the 2015 Delhi elections. If referred to ₹2 crore of untraceable money coming into Aam Aadmi Party's accounts at midnight. It referred to four "donations"...

The biggest movie of the century so far doesn't star a Khan. Although it is a love story, it's not a traditional romance. It has a couple of catchy songs, but I have...

West had a revival of fantasy with the Lord of the Rings films and the Harry Potter franchise. We didn't need it because fantasy never left our hearts. Not just the epics that...

President's rule. It's one of the dirtiest words in Indian politics. Right up there with Emergency. It was a tool of suppressing democracy. Indira Gandhi, and later Rajiv too, used it to remove...

No language is just a language. Each word we speak, or write, is meant to communicate. Not just what we want to say, but also what we are. Language is inseparable from Identity....

There was a species native to Indian towns and cities when I was growing up. It was a kind of young male that gathered in streets, usually around a source of sustenance like...

We have all heard of the recent case of a Muslim girl Suhana Syed harassed for singing a Hindu devotional song in a show. It sounds really appalling. Rafi saab was one of...

Gangster films are a great thing, or rather they can be. At the least we expect them to give us a sneak peak into a world that we will never see. At their...

So what if he was a brutal egomaniac dictator. Fidel Castro was a tall handsome figure with a handsome sidekick Che Guevara. He is a darling of media. He is credited with “liberating”...

This was the start of freedom, but laying the foundation of the politics was one man, Jawaharlal Nehru. The man credited with creating the modern, liberal India. And it all started with that...

Trump didn't have the support of Republican establishment. Even after he became the nominee. It didn't matter. He didn't have a ground operation to get out the vote. It didn't matter. He used...

Some people are pretending to be innocent truth seekers and asking for proof of surgical strikes. Others are pretending to be innocent supporters of truth seeking and supporting these demands. Let's see what...