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On a rather dull weekend for news, where one of the top twitter trends was inexplicably Kanti Shah's cult movie Gunda, one particular piece of breaking news drove social media crazy; ...

A historical primer: The year 1975 saw the imposition of Emergency, a highly unpopular decision of the then Congress Govt. that was criticized by many as being contrarian to democratic principles. ...

Shakespeare’s ‘uneasy lies the head that wears the crown’, is probably tailor made for the Indian cricket captains. At least in the last couple of decades, no captain has had an ...

There has been a constant hue and cry about secularism being in danger since the time BJP has come to power at the center. The torch bearers of secularism would have us ...

I am not a huge fan of Women's tennis. Not because I consider them to be a "weaker sex" to play tennis or it isn't as much a power game as ...

Ye Sarkaar hamaare aur aap jaise logo ki nahi hai (This Government is not for people like you and me) screamed the new age socialist leader from a podium in the ...

Unlike other artforms, which can be argued as being made/performed for the artist's or creator's sake, a movie has a very specific purpose. Especially if it is commercially released for public ...

It's been years since I attended a tambram wedding, so when I got an opportunity to attend, it was too tempting to refuse given my curiosity to study the evolution of ...

I died fifteen years ago as an honest lower divisional clerk in the  secretariat. I had a huge family to look after and numerous responsibilities on my head. When I died it all ...

A strange conversationThrough the privilege of being a Reiki teacher, I often get to hear a lot of interesting statements from a large number of people. One of the conversations that ...

It started very serenely as if people were there with the intent of staying for entire day. Small groups of electric youth shouting slogans and raising their hands in air to ...