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The Asian village: Fragile but resilient, holding on to its place

It has an instinct for survival that surpasses the existential desire of other social organisations.
Ganesh Devy
Counter Culture

Beyond the story of India’s Oscar entry ‘Chhello Show’

It reminds one how digital technology has cut cinema from the physical labour once intrinsic to it.
Prathyush Parasuraman
Economic Perspectives

IMF endorses increase in US interest rates even as global crisis unfolds

Doing so can precipitate a recession that would be far more damaging in the South than in the North.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Counter Culture

Reading Annie Ernaux theorises the personal essay while indulging in it

The Nobel Prize-winning French writer makes literary chic out of a worn-out and overused genre.
Prathyush Parasuraman

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At the Dakshinayana Sarv Bhasha Samwad in Dandi on January 30, 2016. The Dakshinayana movement has spread into many States. Writers all over the country understand it as an advocacy of the freedom of expression.

Birth of a movement: When Dakshinayana began from Dandi

It makes sense of the unease among writers when eliminating “thought adversaries” is on the rise. 
Ganesh Devy
Idea of the Spectacle

Idea of the spectacle

In the age of social media, what we consider “appearance” might become “essence”.
Prathyush Parasuraman
Autorickshaw drivers waiting in line to buy petrol, in Colombo on July 29.

Can austerity end the Sri Lanka crisis?

IMF’s solution for Lankan debt crisis could be a case of the cure being worse than the disease.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
A candle light vigil in Bengaluru on November 21, 2012, which was declared International Day of Action for Legal Abortion in Ireland in memory of Indian origin dentist Savitha Halappanavar, who succumbed to sepsis after her request for an abortion was denied on legal grounds. 

Concerns around abortion in India differ from those in the West

The Supreme Court order reaffirming safe and legal termination of pregnancy is welcome.
Arathi P.M.
A Kunkana tribal dance during a tribal festival at Saputara.

Ramayana a living and contemporary narrative for the Kunkanas of Gujarat

The Kunkana Adivasi community lives on the border between Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Ganesh Devy
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