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Caste away
30 March 2014 10:56 PMWhat has been often apologetically dismissed as Ambedkar’s utopia – his ‘impracticable, unfeasible dream’ of caste-less society – his ‘anti-Hindu’...
What does nationalism hide?
23 March 2014 10:03 PMRight at the outset of Playing the Nation Game, Benjamin Zachariah – historian, musician, playwright and occasional poet – tells us why we do not need...
It’s mapped on the body
23 March 2014 10:02 PMLove. In theory and practice. Let’s call Ira Trivedi’s India in Love that because the book, written about ‘Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century’...
Man to man
16 March 2014 10:38 PMFiction is written because ‘art’ ultimately is not ‘life’ but borrows from experiences. This is why some of the greatest books are the ones where some...
May the odds be ever in your favour
9 March 2014 11:50 PMSeries. Something we always associated with television, but then books happened. The irony however is that these series gain momentous popularity the...
Repackaging the Mahatma
9 March 2014 11:35 PMMohandas Karamchand Gandhi is an integral part of the Indian consciousness, if such a thing ever existed. School curriculums have played a part in...
Interpreter of curable maladies
2 March 2014 10:15 PMT SR Subramanian – with an insider’s insight and outsider’s rage – has made a frontal attack on the ills of Indian government and bureaucratic setup...
Myth, and a little something
2 March 2014 10:14 PMTell us about yourself. How did you start writing?I have been writing since childhood. Apparently, when I was asked the all important ‘what do you...
Trapped in a messiah complex
16 Feb 2014 9:18 PMThe country is going through tough times. Poverty, sickness, mismanagement, corruption and misgovernance are rampant and almost omnipresent....
Tiny window with too hazy a pane
2 Feb 2014 9:55 PMInstead we get a compilation of his ‘achievements and accolades’ during his tenure at the post. The book is divided into varied chapters that unravel...
Prisons can’t bind the prisoner
2 Feb 2014 9:53 PMShawshank Redemption was the first thought that came to my head when I was done reading Omar Shahid Hamid’s The Prisoner. Honestly, it was a strange...
City, Shitty, Bang , Bang
1 Feb 2014 9:46 PMLike Indrajit Hazra, I was born and bred in Kolkata. Unlike him, I was a bokhate chele (mildly put, a wayward boy) and have lived the city not through...
Dollar’s Diminishing Grip
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19 July 2025 7:08 PMLegacy of a Frontier Statesman
19 July 2025 7:06 PMBallad of a Maverick Musician
19 July 2025 7:03 PMLife in Transit Mode
19 July 2025 7:01 PM
Guru Dutt’s 100th Birth Anniversary: A grand celebration of his iconic...
22 July 2025 5:40 PMKajol & Twinkle Khanna to host a new talk show
22 July 2025 5:36 PMYRF to celebrate 25 years of cinematic legacy of Hrithik Roshan & Jr...
22 July 2025 5:01 PMDear Maa: Film that tugs at your heart
22 July 2025 4:56 PMGuardians of the Wild
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