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Merchants of fear

The journalist Shamya Dasgupta has ably put together the story of the Ramsay brothers, a family united in spirit and in business and that does not tak

Indian novelist Suzanna Arundhati Roy presents her book 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' at the Parco della Musica Auditorium in Rome, Monday, June 12, 2017. (Giorgio OnoratiANSA via AP)

Arundhati Roy: ‘We are all living in a graveyard of sorts’

Interview with Arundhati Roy.

New Delhi: Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) rebels who left the RSS' student outfit citing differences over its handling of the JNU row, burn a copy of the ancient legal text Manusmriti despite the varsity administration denying permission for the same, in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI Photo (PTI3_8_2016_000356B)

Manusmriti in Modi era

The RSS’ cultural affiliate is planning to bring out a sanitised version of Manusmriti without the harsh references to women and Dalits, but scholars

Scars of memory

The book brings out the horrifying stories of the women victims of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, opening old wounds that leave one hurt, angry and ashamed

The storyteller of Kochi

Interview with Anees Salim, whose “The Small-Town Sea” has just been published.

‘We are witnessing the repressive apparatus of the state’

Interview with JNU sociologist Avijit Pathak on the rise in incidents of lynching and its social ramifications.

Demonising Akbar

The move to rename Akbar ka Quila in Ajmer is another step towards advancing the BJP’s agenda to paint the Mughal emperor in negative hues and aggrand

Metro Plus - July 15, 2009 ---- Ms. Justice Leila Seth at Park Plaza, Noida, on Monday. 13 July, 2009. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty

A class apart

Leila Seth (1930-2017), who had many firsts to her credit as a woman, will be remembered as a sensitive person who defied stereotypes all her life.

Kazi Nazrul Islam, is reckoned a great revolutionary
poet of India, though stricken by illness, he is to-day a
dead volcano. Rabindranath Tagore has been denounced by Pakistan, but Nazrul reigns in the hearts of East Bengalis, supplanting Mohammed
Iqbal, who mooted the idea of a separate Muslim State.
An interesting fact is that Nazrul is the only poet who enjoys literary pension from the Governments of both Pakistan and West Bengal. (25/05/1969).
PHOTO: THE HINDU ARCHIVES

Yet another falsity

The revolutionary Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam joins the pantheon of heroes and legends the Sangh Parivar has co-opted as its own. The tag attached

‘It is a moment to cherish for Indian cinema’

Interview with the actor Jayaprada.

New Delhi: File picture of BJP MP Vinod Khanna at Parliament House in New Delhi. He died on Thursday at a hospital in Mumbai. PTI Photo(PTI4_27_2017_000034A)

A hero in many roles

Vinod Khanna (1946-2017) was seldom the first choice of producers and directors in his career, but he refused to fall by the wayside. A constant searc

VISAKHAPATNAM, ANDHRA PRADESH, 09/09/2016: Film Director K. Viswanath remains seated in the car during a function organised by Kopparapu Kavula Kalapeetham on the Beach Road in Visakhapatnam on Friday.-- Photo: C.V.Subrahmanyam

Rooted in tradition

Subtlety and understatement are the hallmarks of the films of K. Viswanath, who has been honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award this year.