You can only gasp, speechless at the towering statue of the Iron Man, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, as he seems to step…
Privilege Over Principle
There has been this pattern of reducing national discourse to a uni-dimensional level by not only our media and films…
The Leveraging Power Of An Option
The State in Independent India is still not free of its colonial vestiges. At its kindest, it tends to treat…
In Response To Chetan Bhagat’s – The youth need to shut their phones….
Most off-putting are articles where the author begins by presuming the reader to be stupid. Then what makes it worse…
Open The Doors Or They Will Be Brought Down !
Look around you. The once-invincible citadels are crumbling down. People who thrived, flourished, prospered behind those thick, impregnable walls seem…
Of Unusual Friendships…
In 2010, I was looking for a new driver, when a friend sent Rajendra Singh Jangid (name changed) to my…
The Greyhound – A Tangential Take
As is the case during these pandemic times no one is in a hurry to get to bed and good…
And We Ask Too Late, How Did This Come To Pass….?
For decades we watched films that catered to the lowest common denominator. That not only dumbed down our cinematic sense…
Out Of Syllabus
Let’s not even talk about reams and reams of film roll on the French Revolution, the life & times of…
The Cracked Mirror – In Pandemic Times.
In these pandemic times it sometimes feels that one is inundated with WhatsApp forwards, blogs, ope-eds of people who are…