Shreevatsa Nevatia

Shreevatsa Nevatia Consulting Editor

Shreevatsa Nevatia works as a consulting editor at Frontline. His book, How to Travel Light: My Memories of Madness and Melancholia, was published in 2017.

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Kunal Kamra has seen several of his shows cancelled over the years. He has received death threats, and his Mumbai landlady once had him evicted because of his political comedy.

Frontline On Air | Intolerance and outrage leave Indian stand-up comics with less to laugh about

But even in this climate of fear, some comics are still holding out, balancing laughter and political perils.

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Management committee members of the Shri Durgiana Mandir burn effigies and Palestine flags at a protest in Amritsar on November 3.

Why Zionism rules the hearts of Hindutva acolytes

The far right in India has always supported Israel. Decades of hate strengthen the Modi-Netanyahu bear hugs, giving licence to dangerous vitriol.

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Kunal Kamra has seen several of his shows cancelled over the years. He has received death threats, and his Mumbai landlady once had him evicted because of his political comedy.

Intolerance and outrage leave Indian stand-up comics with less to laugh about

But even in this climate of fear, some comics are still holding out, balancing laughter and political perils.

Shreevatsa Nevatia

Sudha Bharadwaj: ‘A lot of democratic space has been lost’

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Sudha Bharadwaj is one of the 16 people accused in the Bhima Koregaon case.

Sudha Bharadwaj: ‘A lot of democratic space has been lost’

The human rights lawyer and activist says that while in jail, she saw the human cost of a dysfunctional justice system.

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Installation view of “Tree and Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE”.

Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases the impact of Buddhist art on southern India

Tree & Serpent, an ongoing exhibition at the New York museum, tells the story of how Buddhist art transformed the early landscape of South India.

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Frontline Bookshelf: Review of two biographies based on B.R. Ambedkar’s life

B.R. Ambedkar was a man of many shades. Nearly 70 years after his death, more facts about the revolutionary leader’s childhood, the experiences that s

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Students appear for the Class 12 board exam conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education, in Bhopal.

A cry for help that goes unnoticed

Mental health issues, academic pressure, and social stigma are driving India’s students to suicide. What can we do to prevent it?

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“Gestation”. 1989, Acrylic on canvas 175 x 175 cm.

At Rs.51.75 crore, ‘Gestation’ puts S.H. Raza at the highest level of Indian art

Raza’s painting made history in the same year that the Pompidou in Paris celebrated his centenary.

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Anjum Hasan’s History’s Angel uses the expanse of fiction to show how Indian Muslims are pigeonholed.

No getting past the present: Review of ‘History’s Angel’ by Anjum Hasan

Hasan’s novel details how Indian Muslims are being made to feel like outsiders and fugitives.

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A still from The Mirror. “I love that the film is a cat-and-mouse game. They have both transgressed,” says Konkona.

How Konkona Sen Sharma’s ‘The Mirror’ explores class and desire

Her new short film, part of the Netflix anthology Lust Stories 2, hits hard by making honesty an imperative.

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Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in October 1973. Frustrated with the clampdown and surveillance following the Prague Spring in 1968, he left for France with his wife Vera in 1975.

Milan Kundera (1929-2023): Explorer of life, death, and the unbearable lightness in between

To know Kundera, we must turn to his biography, but we must first read his fiction.

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