Economic Perspectives Is a reversal of bank nationalisation on the cards?C.P. ChandrasekharCalls for privatisation have grown louder just as public sector banks clean up their balance sheets.
Counter Culture Films like ‘Avatar 2’ challenge how acting is thought of as a craftPrathyush Parasuraman
Vulture funds that feed on sovereign debtC.P. CHANDRASEKHARA recent judgment in a U.S. court in a case involving debt restructuring by Argentina poses questions about sovereign default and by extension the hug
Growth bubbleC.P. CHANDRASEKHARThe benefits of Gujarat's economic growth have not been shared with much of the States poor and working population and even the sustainability of this
Stings, ratings & shootingsSASHI KUMARThe single most important arbiter of the television industrys fortunes, the ratings system, is here to stay. It has the media by the throat and contro
Discussing classicsSATCHIDANANDANIt is the continuous alternation between the text and the world that gives the reading of a classic its real value even when this can be a disturbing
Demonising dissentJAYATI GHOSHThe UPA governments unpopular reform measures and double standards show that it is more interested in incentivising big business than meeting the soci
Lost in transitionC.P. CHANDRASEKHARThe Congress is at an ideological turning point where foreign-controlled, low-technology projects in retail and other sectors are seen as the new temp
Understanding economicsJAYATI GHOSHLack of economic literacy is why people are not in a position to interrogate economic policies that are often presented as inevitable.
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.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
