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India, This Side
The rising threat to Indian languages
The missing Census 2021, the NEP, and the rapid growth in AI have endangered them.
Ganesh Devy
Counter Culture
Oscars 2023: What’s fair got to do with it?
We see the Oscars wins as ours, a validation of our tastes, but that is it. Fair play has no role.
Prathyush Parasuraman
Hindi Belt
Vinod Kumar Shukla: A poet in a novelist’s shirt
The PEN/Nabakov award for Shukla is an acknowledgement of a unique and extraordinary talent.
Kuldeep Kumar
India, This Side
Why Indian democracy needs more ‘unlettered’ literary figures
Those courageous voices would bring the republic back to the norms envisioned in the Constitution.
Ganesh Devy
Counter Culture
Kochi-Muziris Biennale: A throbbing rigidity
Does India’s first and only arts biennale take itself a little too seriously?
Prathyush Parasuraman
Economic Perspectives
Adani-Hindenburg saga raises concerns over exposure of LIC, public sector banks
There are dangers in public institutions blindly supporting the rapid growth of corporate groups.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
INDIA, THIS SIDE
Bhakti: Then and Now
Today, it is directed at a living person who communicates through an elaborate digital set-up.
Ganesh Devy
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Pakistan likely to go the Sri Lanka way, default on external debt payments
Faith in a reformed IMF being an instrument for global governance in times of crisis is misplaced.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
‘Fursat’: When big directors wield the small phone
One only wishes that Vishal Bhardwaj’s film had come with the whisper of a story that moved us, too.
Prathyush Parasuraman
End of a roll: The curious rise and fall of Adani stocks
The manufactured anger against Hindenburg for revelations about Adani share prices is quite strange.
Sukumar Muralidharan
Allah Naam ki Siyasat: On political Islam in India
Hilal Ahmed’s book will go a long way in educating everyone about Islam’s values and vision.
Kuldeep Kumar
The Indian ease with translation and multilingualism
It cannot be understood by an ideology that thinks of every “other” as an enemy within.
Ganesh Devy
Can there be something such as an honest critic?
The critic is a persona largely missing from India’s classical music and dance scene.
Prathyush Parasuraman
A new phase of censorship creep in India
A proposal to amend the IT Rules 2021 and the ban on a BBC documentary are part of a larger trend of Internet censorship, growing since 2014.
N. Ram
The rediscovery of Ekakini, an iconic Hindi work
Hindi literary circles are all agog as the first lesbian novel, from 1948, is republished.
Kuldeep Kumar
Shah Rukh Khan: The new action hero on the block
With Pathaan and Jawan, will he use his stardom to rewrite the genre or will the genre rewrite him?
Prathyush Parasuraman
Is a reversal of bank nationalisation on the cards?
Calls for privatisation have grown louder just as public sector banks clean up their balance sheets.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
The great Indian family
A strict population control policy sounds good on paper, but it ignores sociological correlations.
Ganesh Devy
From the heart, from Pakistan
Rakhshanda Jalil’s series introduces Pakistani women poets to Hindi readers.
Kuldeep Kumar
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