Give us an Engineering Graduate, We’ll turn him into an uninspired Human
The Indian IT Industry is said to account for more than 65% of the total American market, and what has kept it thriving is the USP of providing cost benefits. IT ...
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Mahesh Sharma Ji – We don’t need no Culture lessons
Dear Mahesh Sharma Ji, A Padabali Kirtan made sure I woke early this morning, feeling rejuvenated. And as I have more hours to myself today, I take this opportunity to ...
TVF Pitchers – tastes like wine, hits like whiskey and of course flows like beer
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 ...
Marathi Regionalism- A case of misplaced pride or Language under threat?
Marathi language cause, casually dubbed as "Marathi regionalism", erupts on the national scene from time to time. This time, it has returned to the fore with a controversy that auto rickshaw ...
Election Times – The Mega Fest of Scaring Muslims has begun in grand style
I found a very interesting connection between Indian Elections and the Advertising Industry. Both the Industries (if I may call the voter-luring-exercise an industry) scare their audience or at least a ...
Liberally hypocrite on the ‘Sunny’ side?
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 ...
‘Manjhi – The Mountain Man’- Shandar ! Zabardast ! Zindabaad
It is a shame that the prints of Manjhi – The Mountain man were leaked much before the theatre release of the film. One may argue that with rising costs of ...
FTII: Lights, Camera and a whole lot of Inaction
People from more ‘important’ trades might belittle the importance of cinema. But cinema has carried tradition, history, culture and storytelling on its shoulders for a while now. People call it frivolous, ...
Tamil Nadu and the politics of Prohibition
The biggest news to come out of Tamil Nadu over the last few days has been a vociferous call for alcohol prohibition by opposition parties. While prohibition has been a hot ...
Porn – Pleasure but also exploitation
I believe when the government extended a ban to some 900 odd porn sites, they did it with a good intention. I also don’t want to pretend that I am a ...
When Kishore Kumar refused to bow down to Indira Gandhi
Kishore Kumar was not just a singer, he was our friend who had a song for every mood. His was an untrained voice that ruled the industry for decades. He still ...
Porn Ban, Morality, and the Idea of India
In today’s papers in Raipur there’s a harrowing tale. A gang run by a couple kidnaps young girls, has them raped, and convinces them that they have nowhere to go now. ...
