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Friday, October 18, 2024

As they lay dying: caregivers and patient in His Three Daughters

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(my latest Economic Times column) ---------------------- With 20 minutes left in the new film His Three Daughters – a superbly performed ch...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Coming of age in the video era: a new book evokes 1980s memories of Newstrack, Lehren and other relics

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(Wrote this personal essay around a new book for Mint Lounge) ----------------- On hearing about the recent death of media magnate Nari Hira...
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Friday, September 27, 2024

A discussion around political/paranoia thrillers

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My online film group is conducting a Zoom discussion around political/paranoia thrillers on the evening of Friday, Oct 4. Please mark the da...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

A note on Rahul Bhatia's The Identity Project

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The photos here are of author Rahul Bhatia, human-rights activist Usha Ramanathan, and Nisar Ahmad (tireless striver for justice after losin...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Bees saal baad

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This blog turned 20 years old a couple of weeks ago. (* Cliche alert * Very strange to think about this - it feels like yesterday that I sta...
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Thursday, August 29, 2024

Seasons in the sun: how an Anglophone boy failed to engage with (or misheard) Hindi song lyrics

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(My latest Economic Times column. It also mentions the bulky new anthology The Swinging Seventies – co-edited by Nirupama Kotru and Shantanu...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

On the Art-vs-Artist discourse – and why mirrors (including the mirrors provided by “nasty” art) are important

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This essay I wrote for an Outlook magazine special is a condensed version of many discussions I have had over the years about the "art-...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Dog time: on Snowy/Whitey, an old lady of Saket (2007-24)

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You can measure time in your own life through a dog’s years, even if it’s a creature you didn’t know too well. Consider this community dog v...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

All you need is 15-love: on Challengers, a superb film about passion and tennis

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(my latest Economic Times column, about one of my favourite films of the past year. And published just as Rafa Nadal – aged 38, back from hi...