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Mouna Ragam at 40: Cinema and the Neoliberal Turn
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (267+ words) Published: Sep 06, 2026 15:41 IST “The very principle of democracy is founded on the possibility of making alternative choices. There is no longer a need for democracy, since ideology made the idea that ‘there is no alternative’ acceptable.” — Samir Amin, The Liberal…...
Brij Bhushan Acquittal and Tejpal Conviction: Two Views of Victim Behaviour
1+ week, 3+ day ago (494+ words) Published: Sep 02, 2026 21:45 IST - 13 MINS READ On August 6, the two-judge Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court that found Tarun Tejpal, editor-owner of Tehelka magazine, guilty of charges of sexual harassment and sexual assault made critical observations in its order about…...
Uttam Kumar: Stardom, Ageing, and Bengali Cinema
1+ week, 4+ day ago (259+ words) Published: Sep 02, 2026 14:00 IST - 17 MINS READ Banerjee, Smita (2019): “Evolution of Dada Uttam Kumar: Performing masculinity and the disillusioned Bhadralok Mahanayak in the 1970s’ popular melodramas”, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 10(1), pp. 52-74. Banerjee, Smita (2023): Modernities and the Popular Melodrama: The Suchitra–Uttam Yug…...
Parandur Airport Cancelled, But Chennai Needs a New Airport
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1051+ words) Published: Aug 26, 2026 18:16 IST - 11 MINS READ The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government on August 24 announced the cancellation of the Parandur greenfield airport project, fulfilling one of the TVK’s election promises. On August 25, Industries Minister S. Keerthana announced that the government was…...
Ethanol Policy: Who Pays for Indiaâs E20 Push? - Frontline
2+ week, 6+ day ago (381+ words) Published: Aug 24, 2026 15:56 IST - 11 MINS READ But we ask a different question in this note. Ethanol has to be made from something. The real question is what it is made from, and at whose cost. The raw material used to make…...
How UP’s Upper-Caste Elite Shaped Majoritarian India’s Democracy
2+ week, 6+ day ago (341+ words) Published: Aug 24, 2026 13:18 IST - 7 MINS READ Gaya sees the malaise in historical terms, regretting that Indian democracy has suffered a diminution of the “abiding humanity” and “cultural capaciousness” of older ideals. In their place has come a “nationalism insistent on denying…...
The Cost of Cash Transfers: India’s Welfare Dilemma
3+ week, 1+ day ago (691+ words) Published: Aug 22, 2026 11:51 IST - 10 MINS READ On August 1, when the Delhi government launched a cash transfer scheme under which eligible women in the national capital would get Rs.2,500 a month, it triggered a huge debate on the burden such schemes are…...
PM CARES Fund Audit Raises Questions on Transparency
3+ week, 1+ day ago (601+ words) Published: Aug 22, 2026 11:46 IST - 9 MINS READ The fund received domestic donations to the tune of Rs.479.04 crore and Rs.92.83 lakh in foreign donations during 2024-25. There was a drop in the donations received as compared with 2023-24, when domestic donations amounted to Rs....
BJP’s Bengal Honeymoon Losing Shine
3+ week, 1+ day ago (327+ words) Published: Aug 22, 2026 12:04 IST - 10 MINS READ Also Read | After Bengal, the bulldozer The Mamata loyalist and Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Bandopadhyay has since claimed that his colleague Kunal Ghosh heard Adhikari ask Javed, during an administrative meeting, to “regularise everything”. Madan…...
Wages for Housework: Can Cash Transfers Empower Indian Women?
3+ week, 6+ day ago (24+ words) India’s cash transfers to women are reshaping welfare and unpaid labour, but feminists debate their limits, electoral use and power to change gender relations....