Amrita Dutta
Articles By Amrita Dutta
The rocky course #MeToo has faced in two southern film industries
An apology and a ban reveal the rocky course of #MeToo in two southern film industries.
Tamil Nadu honour killing: ‘Till police here, we are safe… But other side has more people’
‘Vanniyar’ Swathi, ‘Parayar’ Nandesh fell in love on the road that took them out of their divided village. But 4 months after they married, caste caught up.
In Mahesh Rao’s second novel, exploring the moral challenge that money and social mobility pose
In his second novel, Polite Society, Mahesh Rao chooses to transplant Austen’s Emma in crazy rich south Delhi.
Kannada actor Arjun Sarja accused of harassment, HC to hear his plea today
Hariharan told The Indian Express that she was spurred by the accounts of actor Tanushree Dutta and singer Chinmayi Sripada to speak up.
Sita Sings the Blues
A Kannada poet-activist Du Saraswathi sings of a Sita who doesn’t die, she lives on to create life. “Why should Sita die? Life is precious and beautiful. It should be used to create more life. And that is why Sita is important,” says Saraswathi.
The revolution never arrives
A stark political fable, Benyamin’s award-winning novel offers a powerful portrait of a divided State
Sita’s new world
Walikhanna charts the journey of Indian women from birth to childhood and adolescence and marriage, and their experience of gender-based violence.
Defence Against the Dark Arts: A look at Girish Karnad’s legacy
For years, Girish Karnad has used history and ancient myths to examine the fault lines of Indian society, here and now. As he returns with a new historical play, a look at the 80-year-old’s legacy and why he still feels the need to voice his dissent.
A sailor and his boat: Abhilash Tomy’s love affair with the sea that brought him to race
Abhilash Tomy’s Golden Globe adventure, though, remained a secret to his parents. “When the boat was built, a Malayalam newspaper printed a small story about it. That’s when we came to know,” the father says.
Mahatma Swachh Bharat: ‘I have work to do… I keep the temple clean, I keep my house clean’
The Indian Express reporters fan out across the country to mark milestones in the Mahatma’s journey. To bring stories of the footsoldiers of Swachh Bharat, whose job it is to wipe, mop and dust where the Mahatma once walked.
We are living in times when it has become very difficult to do satire: Mohammed Hanif
Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif on his new novel Red Birds and the war that will go on forever.
RSS detested Ambedkar in his lifetime but now must praise him: Ramchandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha on the second volume of his biography on Mahatma Gandhi, the cost of criticising the incumbent government and why Dalits are a major political force today.
One year later, Gauri Lankesh’s newsroom returns to business
The tabloid is now called Nyaya Patha and it hits the stands tomorrow on Lankesh’s first death anniversary -- with a special issue.
Fashion Your Own Fables: Can stories save a world gone mad?
In her new book, feminist poet-writer Suniti Namjoshi revisits Aesop’s life and asks: can stories save a world gone mad?
In Fact: In call for separate North Karnataka, some old wounds, some new politics
Flagging the alleged discrimination to the North in the state Budget, a couple of organisations raised a demand for a separate state of North Karnataka last month.
How Kannada writer Vasudhendra’s book became a lifeline for gay men living double lives in Karnataka
Thank You for the Stories: Mohananswamy’s readers continue to find him. He uses every opportunity to meet and counsel them. “I have to speak up, only then will others find the courage. Someone has to be there for them. Someone has to say, this is who I am,” he says.
Facebook takes down Postcard News page, owner claims ‘pro-nationalist’ tag
The website’s founder and owner, Mahesh Vikram Hegde, said, “When we tried to post something on our page Sunday, we could not find it. We have not received any communication from Facebook. So, we cannot even appeal against it,” Hegde said.
I Spy Eagle Eye: In Tamil pulp writers’ Suba’s novels, Chennai embraces its flamboyant, noir self
Suba, along with writers like Rajesh Kumar and Pattukottai Prabhakar — and before them, Sujatha — was a part of the explosion of Tamil crime writing in the 1970s and 1980s. Their stories were serialised in magazines, printed as monthly novels, and devoured by a people on the move.
Karnataka: Debate over place of English as medium in government schools
Students in state government schools at present learn English from Class V.
In the ordinary, I find a diminished epic: Sumana Roy
Writer Sumana Roy on her new novel, why she rejects all that is readymade and the subversion in her writing.
