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Driving home the message

Girls’ arrest for Facebook Comment is a Breach of our Freedom of Expression

So Facebook and the Indian media have found a new topic today – Ajmal Kasab. But I can’t get the thought out of mind – two young girls heckled, arrested… Read more »

Salil Chowdhury

Music and Words of the Genius Called Salil Chowdhury

“Pagol hawa…ki amar moton tumio haariye gele…” Lyrics of human protest and social consciousness came in as an awakening in the pre-Independence era of the 1940s. The architect? Salil Chowdhury…. Read more »

Rahul Dravid

Till Next Time, Rahul…

Over the past two months I happened to live in Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan. Work being for IPL this season I was excited for many reasons. More so,… Read more »

World Cup

Don’t be Dumb, Sports and Politics Go Hand in Hand

It’s one year to the day when India won the World Cup, beating Sri Lanka in the final. And while the whole country is busy celebrating, trying to figure out… Read more »

BRICS logo

The Delhi Summit and Building BRICS for a New World Order

The fourth BRICS summit being held in New Delhi has invited a lot of optimism and curiosity from various corners of the world, albeit a trifle bit scepticism among the… Read more »

Sachin's 100th hundred

Ramblings of a Sachin Fan: 100 Hundreds is Just a Number, Not the Final Destination

It was a day of introspection and honestly I didn’t think much about the game (India vs Bangladesh) as I had work and safely thought India would win the match…. Read more »

Vidya Balan

Oh Kolkata: Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani Does Justice to the City of Joy

Reaching the hall slightly late, I missed the opening but what followed for the next 100 minutes, or slightly more, left me gasping for more. Yes, Kahaani is a film… Read more »

Puri beach

Lens, Lights and Action

Amit Sahoo is just an 18-year-old who discovered that he liked photography just one and half years back. Nothing much has changed since then. He still holds his first digital… Read more »

Agneepath

Agneepath: Remake Lacks Fire and Vijay Still Needs More Work to be Done

Okay, so the K-Jo take on the chronicles of the iconic Vijay Dinanath Chauhan (pura naam, mind you) is out and is raking up big bucks at the box office… Read more »

Mumbai

Mumbai: Shorn of the Glitz and Glam, a City of Guts and Glory

Yeh hai Bombay meri jaan. It’s been 45-odd years since the film CID hit the screens and Johnny Walker crooned the life and times of Bombay. That’s a generation, and… Read more »