Notes on Culture

A critical analysis of the 1987 Tamil film, "Nayagan," which is widely regarded as one of the best movies of Maniratnam and Kamal Hassan.

The episode of Richard III's seduction of Anne and Manthara's slow and effective poisoning of Kaikeyi's mind offers a brilliant comparative analysis of the genius level grasp of literary Masters over ...

Several famous and popular episodes and stories in the Ramayana are actually interpolations added to the epic over time. This essay unravels some major such episodes using evidence-backed scholarship. ...

A long form essay exploring the various elevating facets of the fabulous inner journey called the Kumbha Mela

This is the first episode of a series analysing the characters of the Mahabharata penned by the legendary DVG about 50 years ago.

A comprehensive critique of the 2006 Hindi film, "Rang De Basanti" as a vehicle of Communist propaganda

An essay on how the foundation for the Islamisation of Hindi cinema was laid as early as the 1930s beginning with the film, "Alam Ara."

The first part of a series documenting the brief history of the calculated destruction of the two-millenia-old tradition of Indian literary and aesthetic tradition and discipline

This is the story of a silk-weavers guild from Mandsaur who restored a magnificent Surya Mandir in 473 CE