March 05,2022 11:00:17 AM
The biographer of HD Deve Gowda, Sugata Srinivasaraju, on the unheralded career of India’s first OBC Prime Minister, and why his democratic engagement is the best argument for coalition politics
Fri, Mar 04, 2022November 08,2021 11:32:49 AM
From mapping history to anecdotes, the book presents how the superstars improvised and built on the language of popular cinema
Mon, Nov 08, 2021August 18,2021 04:10:01 AM
Amrita Dutta writes: Government’s refusal to talk to the Opposition as equals, using ideas of honour and propriety as a smokescreen for a ruthless exercise of power is a dissolution of democracy. It’s a game familiar to those growing up in Indian homes.
Thu, Aug 19, 2021July 28,2021 03:20:37 AM
Amrita Dutta writes: As the pandemic continues, we must write the ‘little histories’, so that a ‘big history’ may also be written along the way
Wed, Jul 28, 2021June 17,2021 03:55:48 AM
Amrita Dutta writes: On Twitter, Surekha was a woman who spread a spendthrift joy by inviting us to share the things she loved — poetry, trees, good food
Thu, Jun 17, 2021March 11,2021 03:01:11 AM
The Harry-Meghan interview reveals that not much has changed in the House of Windsor in the 26 years since Princess Diana’s tell-all BBC interview
Thu, Mar 11, 2021January 24,2021 06:28:09 AM
The defining feature of Salma’s writing has been the close, uncompromising attention she brings to bear on home and marriage
Sun, Jan 24, 2021January 23,2021 03:42:39 AM
This fundamental inequality robs women of self-worth, but also stunts men into pre-fabricated social roles. It radiates out of the home into the public sphere.
Sun, Jan 24, 2021January 11,2021 04:53:49 AM
Mehta leaves behind a remarkable legacy as a memoirist, and essayist for The New Yorker — and a man who, early on, seized upon his subject: the remarkable life and times of Ved Mehta and his family, which he wrote about, over three decades, in his 12-volume autobiography, Continents of Exile.
Mon, Jan 11, 2021November 14,2020 04:00:11 AM
DDLJ was spot-on in its confidence in post-liberalisation Indian love. Its power lies in the encounter it stages between tradition and disruption
Sat, Nov 14, 2020November 01,2020 06:30:45 AM
Journalist Declan Walsh on the many Pakistans he saw during his time as a foreign correspondent in the country
Tue, Nov 03, 2020October 11,2020 06:10:40 AM
Once the realm of socially awkward nerds, coding is now being pitched as a new interactive playground for children
Sun, Oct 11, 2020September 13,2020 06:45:53 AM
Attraction and betrayal play out over email, Orkut chatrooms, Twitter timelines, dating sites and meditation apps, but The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories is about people
Sun, Sep 13, 2020September 11,2020 04:05:43 AM
Whether or not Rhea is guilty of something more grievous than possession of a few grams of marijuana is for an investigation to find out, but the demonisation of even her most humane responses — why did she say sorry to Sushant’s body? why was she taking him to psychiatrists? — is the sign of a collective moral failure.
Fri, Sep 11, 2020August 17,2020 05:30:01 AM
Across the state, several such examples of government teachers’ innovation through the vatara shale model abound.
Mon, Aug 17, 2020July 31,2020 20:31:25 PM
Anu Menon's film tells the story of a difficult mother and an unapologetic achiever. But it contests that her husband was a homosexual
Sat, Aug 01, 2020July 22,2020 19:34:52 PM
Who was Harriet Tubman? Why does her life story resonate with contemporary America?
Thu, Jul 23, 2020July 19,2020 06:15:00 AM
The silences and erasures of A Burning make it a watered-down 'new India' novel
Mon, Jul 20, 2020July 12,2020 07:00:23 AM
Writer and filmmaker Paromita Vohra on Saroj Khan’s role in bridging different styles and eras of Hindi film dance
Sun, Jul 12, 2020July 08,2020 07:02:28 AM
For close to two decades now, attempts have been ongoing at various levels to get institutions overseas to recognise the peculiar challenge of caste, a system of inequality and oppression that is unique to the subcontinent and is recognised by the Constitution of India.
Fri, Oct 16, 2020July 02,2020 00:41:04 AM
HUL and other brands are not the only ones guilty of colourist bias — from cinema to news television and advertising, there has been little challenge to the upper-caste, North Indian ideal of beauty and desirability. But, given the generations of dark women and men who have been made to feel unworthy because of the colour of their skin, it is not a burden they can shrug off.
Thu, Jul 02, 2020June 12,2020 01:40:05 AM
It is logical to conclude that even if the multiplex is giving way to streaming websites, the ecosystem of writers and producers remains the chummy boys’ club it was.
Fri, Jun 12, 2020June 11,2020 02:27:35 AM
One of the women alleged that she was gangraped by two men in the factory in Kengeri. An FIR was filed on May 23 against two factory workers under Section 376D of the IPC and SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act.
Thu, Jun 11, 2020May 28,2020 01:43:25 AM
From face shields to shoe covers, temperature checks to oximeter assessments, a temporary halt on facials and manicures to a compulsory hairwash before a haircut — salons in Bengaluru are putting in place a new post-lockdown protocol to draw back customers.
Thu, May 28, 2020May 24,2020 07:00:43 AM
The baby-faced actor has been morphing into an ensemble cast of characters, who pop up in his immensely popular short videos to chat about lockdown blues.
Sun, May 24, 2020