Counter Culture What explains the asphyxiating glut of biopics in Indian cinema?Prathyush Parasuraman
Presidential Election 2022 Droupadi’s moment: Can the presidential candidate push the envelope?Peter Ronald deSouza
Digital capitalismSASHI KUMARIf the television viewer is at the mercy of the service provider, the state too seems to be taking its digital media policy cues from the very industr
Fast-food worldJAYATI GHOSHThe globalised fast-food culture now encourages wasteful and unhealthy patterns of food consumption.
Novel as debateK. SATCHIDANANDANWith its wealth of ideas and insights, lapidary stylistic precision, studied mastery of the contemporary art of fiction, Sundara Ramaswamys J.J: Sila
The ism in journalismSASHI KUMARThe potential and promise of socialism against the neoliberal order needs an agency which can evoke the alternative in freshly minted terms that captu
Beethovens last quartetsJAYATI GHOSHIt is apt as a musical representation of our times: full of tragedy, injustice and farce, and also full of humour and hope for the future.
Clash of exceptionalismsSASHI KUMARThe Western media and the Islamists seem to hold their credo and creed dearer than the human lives lost over Innocence of Muslims.
Asian debt mountainC.P. CHANDRASEKHARThe South Korean experience of an unsustainable, reinforcing build-up in household debt is, in fact, a trend in South-East Asia.
Net worthSASHI KUMARCyberspace and social media, which should be the equivalent of the public square where people meet and exchange views, are instead becoming the more p
Live bites'The changes introduced in D.U. in the name of reforms need to be seen in a broader political context. The government is pushing the education sector
Mexicos challengeJAYATI GHOSHMexicos war on drugs, which began in 2006 and has claimed more than 50,000 lives so far, is set to change from a militaristic approach to one that rec
Of resistance and lossK. SATCHIDANANDANSri Lankan Tamil writers tried to capture the trauma of the violence that gripped the country from 1983. The songs of the vanquished show how poetry c
For a Dalit perspectiveJAYATI GHOSHLike it or not, the benefits that bourgeois culture offers historians and critics largely enhances the interests of the elite at the expense of everyo
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
