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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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‘Animal’ review: Hard to stomach – but equally hard to ignore
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An Indian artist who helped decolonise Christian art has been relegated to the margins in death
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How Uttar Pradesh’s halal ban has plunged the processed food industry into chaos
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From a writer’s journals: How the legendary writer Vladimir Nabokov inspired Amitava Kumar’s fiction
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‘Sam Bahadur’ review: A little bit of everything and nothing about any one thing in particular
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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: Scenes of waterlogging in different parts of Tamil Nadu as heavy rains continue
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Watch: This low-budget version of Jung Kook’s ‘Seven’ music video recreated by Thai fans is a hit
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Watch: Man gets married in hospital after falling sick with dengue just before wedding
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Watch: Stray dog gets stuck in drain below road, firefighters drill through the surface to rescue it
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Watch: Shah Rukh Khan fans from India and abroad participate in the ‘Lutt Putt Gaya’ dance challenge
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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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‘Salaar Part 1 – Ceasefire’ trailer: ‘K.G.F’ director’s new film stars Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran
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‘Animal’ review: Hard to stomach – but equally hard to ignore
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Watch: Trailer of ‘Mad Max’ spinoff ‘Furiosa’ is out
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‘Dhootha’ review: An entertaining yarn about media ethics
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Interview: ‘The Archies’ movie is ‘nostalgic, magical, a storybook come to life’
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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