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Echo satire

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- The Mexican auteur Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's latest "concept", Digger,starring Tom Cruise, has slumped dead on arrival, with venom leaking from critics' pens and a paltry ope... Read More


2023 Act in focus: Experts question blanket immunity for CEC, ECs

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- When the government introduced the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Terms of Office) Bill, 2023 Bill in the Ra... Read More


A chilling chapter of history

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- Visiting a building while reading about its troubled past makes you look at it anew. I found myself thinking about this as my auto flew past the circular building of Vivekananda ... Read More


Devotion as dissent

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- The Bhakti period, which saw a virtual explosion of spiritual verse, is perhaps one of the most vibrant and creative eras in the history of the Indian subcontinent. This movement... Read More


Goddess of all things

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- I wonder if Irwin Allan Sealy unwittingly wrote this book as an invocatory hymn to his yogini, Yoginissima. The multidimensional travelogue and womanity love story reads like a c... Read More


Choosing impact over citations could be a zero-sum game

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- Each autumn, a database compiled by John Ioannidis of Stanford University and the publisher Elsevier identifies the most cited two per cent of the world's researchers, and Indian... Read More


US midterm elections and the mutiny in the MAGA ranks

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- The 2026 US midterm elections are less than four weeks away, and the political environment is becoming increasingly difficult for Donald Trump's Republican Party. All 435 seats i... Read More


Not for beginners

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- "Ishan, meet A.J.T. Johnsingh. Please take him to the dining hall." My hand met the bone-crushing grip of someone who had championed India's wildlife for well over five decades.... Read More


Nana Patekar (1951-2026): An unruly force in Indian cinema

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- Nana Patekar can be singled out as an actor who created his own cinematic space with his unusual intensity and roughness. His body language and charismatic expressions were antit... Read More


To interpret the world, and to change it

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- Two years have passed since the death of the former Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba. His nearly 10-year incarceration, from 2014 to 2024, took a toll on his already 90 pe... Read More