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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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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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Dilip Naik, the Hindi film industry musician you had heard even before you heard of him
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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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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Caught on camera: Supermarket floor collapses, shopper falls through it
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‘Look at my wonderful costume’: Actor Anne Hathaway reacts to scenes from some of her popular movies
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Watch: Chef makes life-sized pencil and sharpener entirely from chocolate
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Watch: Musicians from Kerala perform their version of the iconic 1985 song ‘We Are The World’
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Caught on camera: Ostrich runs loose on a busy road in South Korean town
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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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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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Premiere date announced for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi’
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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The secret ingredient of Pratik Gandhi’s success: ‘Salt to taste’
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‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ trailer: Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff team up for action thriller
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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