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Amrita Shah
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Counterview: What Arundhati Roy and the secular intelligentsia get wrong about Modi’s India
It is not that violence against minorities is not a serious issue, but that outrage while doing nothing has invisibilised the restructuring of the country.
Amrita Shah
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The explanation for the democratic downslide in India and the world – neoliberalism
A weak Opposition and failing institutions are credited with fueling authoritarianism, but little is said of the model within which such phenomena have thrived.
Amrita Shah
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Opinion: What Nidhi Razdan phishing case and Arnab Goswami chats tell us about Indian media today
The media has become a marketing juggernaut, vulnerable to manipulation by influential players.
Amrita Shah
Trending
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
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Why is BJP wooing Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam?
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Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
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What Modi’s Central Vista plan says about his vision of a New India
It’s the Gujarat model, scaled up.
Amrita Shah
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Excerpt: How (and why) the ‘Ramayana’ TV serial brought much of India to a standstill in the 1980s
‘Within weeks, the serial had garnered one of the largest audiences in the history of television.’
Amrita Shah
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How Doordarshan used foreign visits and public meetings to sell Rajiv Gandhi as a ‘man of action’
Edited excerpts from ‘Telly-Guillotined’: ‘Foreign visits ... were awarded saturation coverage to score brownie points.’
Amrita Shah
Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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Flashback: The beginnings of India’s dazzling space programme
An excerpt from Amrita Shah's biography of Vikram Sarabhai.
Amrita Shah
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Literary festivals are carnivals for global travellers. They have no space for serious questions
They are turning writers into performers and readers into passive spectators and fans.
Amrita Shah
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The outrage industry: The media is fuelling a totalitarian surge in India, US and Brazil
The business of anger is reshaping our politics and society.
Amrita Shah
The Reel
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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The story behind the ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ title track: ‘Just write very simple poetry’
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‘Juna Furniture’ review: A simplistic crusade against the neglect of senior citizens
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‘Late Night with the Devil’ review: A deft satire on the price of success
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Watch: In ‘The Big Cigar’, the Black Panther founder flees America through a fake movie
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JNU crisis: Has the Centre bungled or was this always part of the plan?
The expanded application of the term ‘anti-national’ serves to maintain an environment of perpetual threat.
Amrita Shah
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Coaxing, coercing, threatening: how an Ahmedabad road was developed
One man named Surendra Patel, aka Kaka, was responsible for people giving up their land for the project.
Amrita Shah