Dear Award returnees, who your "ALS ice bucket challenge" is really directed against? Returning awards has become the latest fad in India amongst the creative fraternity. This entire episode reminds me ...
In India, Secularism or the liberal tag is a much-maligned concept today. Rather than the lofty ethos that those words should represent, ideas that come to our mind are the negative ...
India and Pakistan are not the best of friends because the latter hasn’t made an effort to reform itself. Rather Pakistan is busy in anti India activities and spewing venom at ...
" Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagonising it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. " If this is really an art and not mere exaggerations, ...
To, The Honourable Chief Minister, Maharashtra State. Dear Sir, One piece of blunt advice (not that you need it, you are a wise man yourself)- ignore the moron Rajdeep ...
Dear Rajdeep Sardesai, For years, the Indian audience had to suffer the shenanigans of you and your ilk in silence. Your snide remarks, your biased reporting, your lies, your smug, ...
If you ever had written an essay on Television during your school age and hadn't called it as an Idiot-Box, your essay was as incomplete as any anchor's script without the ...
When Nitish Kumar took the reins of a wayward and unorganized Bihar in his Hands, it was a miraculous event. It was the fall of an impregnable fortress of Lalu’s RJD. ...
More than "Raj, नाम तो सुना ही होगा", more than "señorita", even more than "आओ, आओ", the dialogue that defines Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) is "जा, सिमरन जा, जी ले ...
Over the past couple of years the portrayal of women in Bollywood has been changing. She is essentially not just hanging on her hero’s arm or singing around the trees. As ...
Years back one of the channels was telecasting Prem Pujaari and I being an ardent fan of Dev Anand, had watched the entire film for the umpteenth time. It was obviously ...
What do Tulsidas, Surdas, Kabir, Rahim Das & Tansen have in common? They all lived and created immortal art during Akbar’s reign. Each in his own way created not just pieces ...
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