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Christianising Carnatic Classical Music: The Madras Enablers of Cultural Appropriation

Christianising Carnatic Classical Music: The Madras Enablers of Cultural Appropriation

And just as I had predicted, the Ideological Iyengar has exploded in his naked, phoney fury and revealed himself in full technicolour craziness. Don’t take my word for it. Check his own tweet. Thodur Madabusi Krishna’s metamorphosis from merely being an Ideological Iyengar to a cultural hoodlum is

The Shakespearean Mists that Cloud the Colonised Indian Elite

The Shakespearean Mists that Cloud the Colonised Indian Elite

Apart from being a great leveller, social media like sunlight, is a great disinfectant. In the heydays of blogging, if you bluffed, you would be mercilessly called out but you had a safety valve of sorts: you could run, lick your wounds, hide, and hibernate for a while. Social media

Is there a Faction in the Congress Party that Repeatedly Sets up Rahul Gandhi for Failure?

Is there a Faction in the Congress Party that Repeatedly Sets up Rahul Gandhi for Failure?

If fortune favours the brave and misery loves company, misery needs to heave a permanent sigh of relief. It has crown-prince-forever-in-waiting, Rahul Gandhi for constant company. In a recent podcast with a friend over the grave subject of the bizarre rigadoon that Rahul Gandhi performed live

The Thriving Colonial Raj in India in Three Random Books

The Thriving Colonial Raj in India in Three Random Books

Here is a brief list before we begin. * Heartrending stories of utter destitution inside a slum and/or on the pavements? Check. * Soul crushing tales of a poor AIDS or terminally-ill patient rotting away in a Government hospital? Check. * Tales of police brutality and bureaucratic corruption endured by a

The Cult of Mother Teresa had to Obviously Culminate in this Horror

The Cult of Mother Teresa had to Obviously Culminate in this Horror

A commentary on the child trafficking racket run by Mother Teresa's NGO, Missionaries of Charity

An Open Letter to Former President Pranab Mukherjee on the Eve of his Rendezvous with the RSS

An Open Letter to Former President Pranab Mukherjee on the Eve of his Rendezvous with the RSS

Your Honourable Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee, At the outset, please do not mistake me for addressing you thus. It was a reminder to myself to congratulate you because it was in your tenure that you got rid of the colonially hungover protocol of using “Excellency” while addressing the President. Please

Rahul Gandhi’s Elevation as President Heralds the Impending Annihilation of the Congress Party

Rahul Gandhi’s Elevation as President Heralds the Impending Annihilation of the Congress Party

This column is authored by Kashyap Naik, a practising lawyer. In a recent speech during August 2017 at Bangalore, Amit Shah, the national president of BJP, interestingly cited a few fundamentals for a political party: “The worth and credibility of a political party is mainly determined by three factors, (a)

Does Sanjay Leela Bhansali Have the Guts to tell the Full Story of Ala-ud-din Khilji?

Does Sanjay Leela Bhansali Have the Guts to tell the Full Story of Ala-ud-din Khilji?

And so it begins again. As the release date for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest opium-addled celluloid perversity approaches, all manner of politicisation has erupted once again. If Karni Sena’s preemptory antics are on the one side, its wealthy, celebrity Sepoy cousin, Devdutt Pattnaik is on the other.

No Barkha Dutt, You Lost the Moral Authority to Criticise Kapil Sibal Long Ago

No Barkha Dutt, You Lost the Moral Authority to Criticise Kapil Sibal Long Ago

Barkha Dutt lost the moral authority to criticise Kapil Sibal long ago when she abandoned all journalistic norms.

Profiling Narendra Modi’s Critics

Profiling Narendra Modi’s Critics

Note: This is a guest article by Sri Narasimha. India’s honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the person people love to hate. Of course he does have his supporters and his sympathisers across all walks of life and demographics, particularly in non-urban places but the folks who own

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