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Prof. V.S. Ramachandran.

In the mind of the brain

A conversation with Professor V.S. Ramachandran, world-renowned explorer of the human brain, on neuroscience, philosophy, consciousness and beyond. (P

On the silver screen

The creative urges of the pioneers and innovators of cinema in the Soviet Union surged in the heady aftermath of the October Revolution and through th

Indian activists take part in a protest rally against the killing of Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh at the India Gate memorial in New Delhi on September 6, 2017.
Indian activists, politicians and journalists demanded a full investigation on September 6 into the murder of Gauri Lankesh, a newspaper editor and outspoken critic of the ruling Hindu nationalist party whose death has sent shockwaves across the country. / AFP PHOTO / SAJJAD HUSSAIN

Refusing to die

Gauri Lankesh’s views will not die because they are intrinsic to freedom and humaneness. And her killers are confused because they do not know how the

Escape from freedom

The news media in India have become, variously, town criers, cheerleaders, abettors, apologists, and an advance guard of newshounds clearing the way,

NEW DELHI, 09/08/2013: INDEX-Supreme Court of India, New Delhi. August 09, 2013. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty

Karnan vs Karnan

Even where it is not a specific gag order as in the Supreme Court order against Justice Karnan, it exerts a nagging virtual pressure of pre-censorship

CHENNAI TAMILNADU 05/06/2016 Sadhguru to Launch 2016 International Day of Yoga celebrations at Ymca Grounds Royapettah chennai on sunday PHOTO L_SRINIVASAN
சென்னை: தமிழ்நாடு: 05-06-2016: யோகா தினத்தையொட்டி, சென்னை ஒய்.எம்.சி.ஏ.மைதானத்தில் நடைபெற்ற நிகழ்ச்சியில் ஈஷா யோகா மைய நிறுவனர் சத்குரு ஜக்கி வாசுதேவ் தலைமையில் சென்னை மக்களுக்கு இலவச யோகா பயிற்சி அளிக்கும் தொடக்கவிழா நடைபெற்றது. இதில் கலந்து கொண்ட சத்குரு ஜக்கி வாசுதேவ். படம்.எல்.சீனிவாசன்.

New Age gurudom

It is one hell of a spiritual sell.

A man hands a newspaper to a customer at a news stand in New York, U.S., November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Fig leaves and champagne

The American liberal media bemoan Hillary Clinton’s loss, but they do not, of course, bemoan the wanton death and destruction that she and her adminis

KOCHI, 02/03/2009: In 'Kathaparayumpol' contestants weave 10-minute stories from mythology and popular culture. Kairali TV hopes to revive the fading art form of Kathaprasangam with the reality show.
Photo:Vipin Chandran 02-03-2009

All in the name of news

In the out-and-out corporate media environment that exists today, market-friendly value systems are a natural consequence and crony capitalist behavio

This undated photo provided by Google shows a Google technician working on some of the computers in the Dalles, Ore., data center. Google is opening a virtual window into the secretive data centers that serve as its nerve center. The unprecedented peek is being provided through a new website unveiled Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. The site features photos from inside some of the eight data centers that Google Inc. already has running in the U.S., Finland and Belgium. (AP Photo/Google, Connie Zhou)

Topsy-turvy journalism

The Marxist concept of the free press, as enunciated forcefully and at length by Marx himself, is not to be confused with the vitiated role of a nomin

NEW DELHI, 15/02/2016: Sadhvi Prachi, who was barred from entering the JNU Campus, seen at the JNU campus entrrance, in New Delhi on February 15, 2016.
Photo: R.V. Moorthy

The new nationalism

Nationhood under the BJP government, conflated with Hinduism, is defined more by what it excludes than what it includes. Anything that this regimented

(FILES) This photograph taken on November 14, 2014, shows Indian Bollywood actor Aamir Khan (L) with his wife Kiran Rao as they attend a screening of the documentary film 'After My Garden Grows' in Mumbai. A top Bollywood actor who starred in a television campaign to promote India has complained of 'rising intolerance' in his homeland, sparking a storm of criticism including from the ruling Hindu nationalist party. Aamir Khan, who like many Bollywood stars is Muslim, said November 23, 2015, that a sense of 'insecurity' and 'fear' was gripping India and revealed that his wife had even questioned whether the couple should leave the country. AFP PHOTO/ STR/FILES

The tolerance test

Do we need Aamir Khan to tell us that there is growing intolerance around us?

Alan Rusbridger addresses staff and contributors in the News Room at The Guardian offices in Kings Cross, London, in celebration of the news that The Guardian has won a Pulitzer Prize, alongside The Washington Post, for its NSA Revelations coverage.

London
By David Levene
15/4/14

Into the brave new digital order

In conversation with Alan Rusbridger, former Editor of The Guardian.