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Decoding the Indian habit of public outrage
June 15, 2014, 7:16 PM IST
Every now and then, some legislators take off on a foreign jaunt on some thinly veiled excuse, ‘studying’ interesting tourist destinations. Whenever this is discovered, there are howls of protest in media, and some patchwork…
June 15, 2014, 7:16 PM IST
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The right to public amnesia?
June 8, 2014, 7:33 PM IST
Does one own one’s existence? Do individuals have full property rights over their life and actions? Does the social imprint left behind by an individual belong to her? Can one choose to erase one’s actions…
June 8, 2014, 7:33 PM IST
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AAP: Becoming relevant again
June 1, 2014, 8:08 PM IST
Dreams rarely die gracefully; there is little that is cinematic about the gradual throttling of a cherished ideal. It is usually a depressing, messy affair that marries inevitability with horribleness, and is thus best given…
June 1, 2014, 8:08 PM IST
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Congress: A river run dry?
May 25, 2014, 7:20 PM IST
Sometimes, mighty rivers die unspectacularly as they run out of water on some dusty dune. A lot of attention has been focused on that dusty dune, which apparently goes by the name of Rahul Gandhi,…
May 25, 2014, 7:20 PM IST
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Modi’s win a cultural revenge? Yes, Indians want a better life
May 18, 2014, 8:07 PM IST
Democracy has spoken again, this time with a new accent. If in its early days, democracy in India principally represented the views of the liberal educated elite, and in the post-Mandal era, opened up its…
May 18, 2014, 8:07 PM IST
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Media & the construction of reality
May 11, 2014, 7:31 PM IST
The most exhausting campaign In India’s history has ended and it is difficult not to feel grateful. If being a spectator to the elections was so tiring, one can only imagine how the political parties…
May 11, 2014, 7:31 PM IST
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The Age of Technocertainty
May 4, 2014, 6:03 PM IST
The computer horoscope is one of those clichés that one cites to make the oft-repeated point about the Indian ability to marry tradition with modernity. It speaks of an ability to regard two apparent opposites…
May 4, 2014, 6:03 PM IST
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AAP: What now?
April 27, 2014, 8:18 PM IST
Unfortunately, the symbolic has become all too real for the AAP. It entered politics not to win, but to change it. It sought to make a point symbolically but ended up having to enact it…
April 27, 2014, 8:18 PM IST
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Understanding the Modi connect
April 20, 2014, 7:49 PM IST
Regardless of what you think of the man, no matter whether you are a swooning supporter, or feel that he is a tyrannical despot who plies hate and divisiveness, there is no denying the fact…
April 20, 2014, 7:49 PM IST
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Modi, Kejriwal and the media effect
April 13, 2014, 8:20 PM IST
The role of media in the current elections is a matter of great debate. Every party believes it is hard done by in the way it has been covered. At one level, this might be…
April 13, 2014, 8:20 PM IST
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Freedom from expectations?
April 6, 2014, 7:57 PM IST
If you are a young woman living in India, leave. In some ways, that is what Vikas Bahl’s deservedly feted film Queen is telling us. It is not that Rani, Kangana Ranaut’s character in the…
April 6, 2014, 7:57 PM IST
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Taking the low road
March 30, 2014, 7:11 PM IST
In a report carried by this newspaper about the current health of Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, we learnt that one of those that called to ask about his health regularly was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh….
March 30, 2014, 7:11 PM IST
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Stalked by ourselves?
March 23, 2014, 7:31 PM IST
Increasingly, our gadgets have started profiling us. Books or brands we have shown an interest seem to follow us around the Internet whichever site we might be on and our mobile phones seem to know…
March 23, 2014, 7:31 PM IST
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AAP: At the crossroads
March 16, 2014, 8:09 PM IST
Perhaps the greatest challenge to Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party came from his unexpected showing in the Delhi polls. It altered what otherwise might have been a set script, and led the party…
March 16, 2014, 8:09 PM IST
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Cheering for the enemy?
March 9, 2014, 7:35 PM IST
The sedition case against the Kashmiri students in Meerut who celebrated when Pakistan beat India in a cricket match has been dropped but the controversy about the police action rages on. A private university has…
March 9, 2014, 7:35 PM IST
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More freedom, less Independence?
March 2, 2014, 11:59 PM IST
Social change in urban India is a complex process. it is easy to think of change under the broad head of gradual modernisation, but at a more atomic level, this label is not a particularly…
March 2, 2014, 11:59 PM IST
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The new power of the media
February 23, 2014, 7:28 PM IST
The 2014 general election is among many other things, a test case for the power of media. So far, while media, particularly of the national variety, demonstrably plays a crucial role in setting the agenda…
February 23, 2014, 7:28 PM IST
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A descent into democracy?
February 16, 2014, 7:15 PM IST
Every now and then, some Parliamentarians plumb new depths in bad behaviour which media reports with a sense of outraged frustration. Shrill prose hunts for new adjectives, while the House, whose dignity has been so…
February 16, 2014, 7:15 PM IST
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The fear of marriage
February 9, 2014, 7:28 PM IST
In the mythology of the Hollywood romantic comedy, men and women view marriage very differently. If about a few hundred films are to be believed, men loathe commitment and run away from the idea of…
February 9, 2014, 7:28 PM IST
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The outsider impulse
February 2, 2014, 7:09 PM IST
The 3 politicians that are setting the agenda for the 2014 elections, at least insofar as media is concerned, all have one thing in common. They are all outsiders, in some way or the other…
February 2, 2014, 7:09 PM IST
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