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D Day, BABY and now Phantom – The escape route through Bollywood
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 ...
Society, Social Media and Our Misplaced Sense of Good Samaritans
On the morning of 24th august I was going through my daily routine of reading newspaper, the first page had news of sexual assault of a six year old girl in ...
A Homeland for Kashmiri Pandits
"Zalimo, O Kafiro, Kashmir hamara chhod do" The streets of Srinagar shook with cries such as these on a cold night in January 1990. The edifice of Kashmiriyat had finally been ...
Anti-Hindi Forever?- In search of a National Language!
I read an article here that talked of twitter being up in arms over the Union government's attempts to impose Hindi. some Twitterati felt that Modi, by delivering most of his speeches in ...
Modi in Dubai : Highlights of PM’s address to Indians in Dubai
More than 50,000 people occupied their seats in the Dubai International Cricket stadium as PM Narendra Modi took to stage to address them. Modi called Dubai a mini India, and showered ...
The Blight of Conversion
The issue of religious conversion is a constant and a prominent issue in the political discourse of the nation. For the sake of discussion in this article, I have clubbed the ...
Bans, disruptions and the dearth of democracy
A republic like ours depends on our representatives. Their job was to make a case for their constituents. Their dharma was to tread according to their moral and practical compasses. But ...
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, ...
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 ...
The ban on internet porn: Puerile and pointless
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; ...
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. ...
