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

· Sep 26, 2023 · 07:30 am

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

· Jul 21, 2022 · 09:00 am

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

· Jan 23, 2021 · 08:45 am

What Modi’s Central Vista plan says about his vision of a New India

It’s the Gujarat model, scaled up.

Amrita Shah

· Dec 16, 2020 · 06:30 am

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

· Mar 30, 2020 · 10:00 am

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

· Sep 04, 2019 · 10:00 am

Flashback: The beginnings of India’s dazzling space programme

An excerpt from Amrita Shah's biography of Vikram Sarabhai.

Amrita Shah

· Feb 15, 2017 · 08:30 pm

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

· Feb 04, 2017 · 08:30 am

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

· May 13, 2016 · 05:30 pm

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

· Feb 26, 2016 · 06:30 pm

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

· May 03, 2015 · 08:45 am