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Economic Perspectives
How the Modi government is dismantling India’s federalism, politically and fiscally
States’ access to resources is seemingly conditional on having a “double-engine sarkar”, even as governments’ space for economic policy is shrinking.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
India, This Side
India cannot be reduced to one narrative, one order, one analysis
The country’s diversity and plurality means such an attempt is likely to end in the realisation that the opposite is as much valid.
Ganesh Devy
Counter Culture
Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Jawan’ is all fandom, no film
In a brave departure from traditional filmmaking, Jawan pushes the boundaries of art and audience.
Prathyush Parasuraman
Economic Perspectives
Why India is unable to curb inflation
The “business friendly” government appears unwilling to come down heavily on footloose speculators garnering quick gains.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Counter Culture
Gadar 2: Regressive on morals, insured on mass culture
Unlike films like The Kerala Story, where the ideology is embedded in the drama, in Gadar 2, the ideology floats one layer above, focussed on adrenali
Prathyush Parasuraman
India, This Side
How India as a civilisation is defined by its engagement with music
The nation’s vast ocean of songs belongs to everyone and is transferred from one generation to another.
Ganesh Devy
Counter Culture
Why we must bring more voices into the making of art
Most often in art and representation, identity is defined by the violations people endure, by their victimhood.
Prathyush Parasuraman
More stories from Columns
Is India booming at 76? GDP’s failure to recover fully indicates otherwise
The perception of rating agencies discounts the fundamental and structural weaknesses that have plagued the Indian economy for long.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Should teachers share their political opinions with students?
With Prof. Sabyasachi Das resigning from Ashoka University and Karan Sangwan being dismissed from UnAcademy, the debate has reached a boiling point.
Apoorvanand
IMF’s urgent loan to Pakistan driven by the West’s paranoia over China
The Fund’s urgency to extend a short-term loan is aimed at stemming Chinese influence in the strategically important country.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
How androgyny and ambivalence outdid other methods of resistance in India
One gets the optics of union between the feminine and the masculine very many times throughout India’s cultural history.
Ganesh Devy
How ‘Rocky aur Rani’ encapsulates the world between real and make-believe
Karan Johar’s films are filled with candied stories of love and characters whose lives evoke both escapism and aspiration.
Prathyush Parasuraman
How marginalisation threatens the survival of indigenous communities
To be indigenous is to be severely marginalised in economy, politics, institutionalised knowledge, and institutionalised religion.
Ganesh Devy
On oil’s slippery slope: India’s goods exports struggle to stem decline
Exports in June dropped to $33 billion, the seventh monthly year-on-year decline, reversing what appeared to be a remarkable post-COVID recovery.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Speak, don’t shriek: Why do some progressive films tell us how to think?
These films are as dull as propaganda films such as The Kashmir Files and The Kerala Story, which are dripping with communal acid.
Prathyush Parasuraman
India’s selective outrage: Celebrate rebel heroes, suppress protests
The aversion of many Indians to social justice movements exposes a hypocrisy of social consciousness.
Apoorvanand
Sri Lankan debt crisis to get worse if IMF prescription is heeded
The IMF’s insistence that Sri Lanka reduce its domestic debt will only end up reducing the value of citizens’ savings tied up in retirement funds.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
The queerness I crave
To read queer literature is to be confronted by the bizarre buzz of your interiority being transcribed by someone else.
Prathyush Parasuraman
Putting the useless to use: The divisive politics of the word ‘Hindutva’
People in India have been known to put to imaginative use things that for them do not serve their intended purpose.
Ganesh Devy
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