New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- Writing a literary history is not merely a matter of arranging authors and texts in chronological order. It requires deciding on what counts as literature, whose voices become r... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- Alok Ranjan's Beyond GDP: In Pursuit of Measuring Happiness echoes a line often attributed to the Buddha: "There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path." The title itsel... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- "I want justice for Sahil. That's the only demand I am making as Sahil's mother. I want nothing else," said Sonali Wakode at Mumbai's Azad Maidan. Her husband, Ravindra Wakode, ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- The phrase "uncanny valley" is used to describe the complicated mixture of feelings evoked by watching something non-human that closely resembles an actual human being: anthropo... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- First Dhurandhar, then DC, then Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups-three films this year that foreground male angst, all three emblematic of the montage movie, a new kind of cine... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- That a corporate "culture lab" has partnered with a corporate publisher to tell us what queer India now is, is not surprising. That the editors of Queer India Now do not examine... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- India is once again embroiled in a controversy that follows a familiar pattern: a failure of governance manifests itself; those responsible initially deny the problem and resist... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- Should the CCTV footage of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode writing his exam and being confronted by the invigilator have been aired? Are those the images by which the 20-year-ol... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 28 -- "All my films are a result of failures," says Q. "Every time I failed at something, my response was to make a film." Little wonder that the 53-year-old Bengali filmmaker is one ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 28 -- In 1998, the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was fighting extradition from Britain to Spain, where proceedings had been initiated against him over allegations of tortur... Read More