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

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.

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.

Counter Culture

Kochi-Muziris Biennale: A throbbing rigidity

Does India’s first and only arts biennale take itself a little too seriously?

Prathyush Parasuraman

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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.

Economic Perspectives

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

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A still from Fursat.

‘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

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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.

The title page of “Gitanjali” in English translation, which won its author Rabindranath Tagore the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

The Indian ease with translation and multilingualism

It cannot be understood by an ideology that thinks of every “other” as an enemy within.

Charles Simic, as a critic, reproduced entire poems of the poet, giving one the space to marinate in even the smallest image.

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