Insight / A.R. Rahman Removes his Facade: The Real Picture is Hideous Commentary on the recent interview of A.R. Rahman in which he revealed himself as an ingrate and a toxic communalist By Sandeep Balakrishna / 21 Jan 2026
Insight / Kamal Haasan's Pathetic Slide into Irrelevance Commentary on the ugly descent of Kamal Haasan into irrelevance By Sandeep Balakrishna / 13 Jun 2025
Culture / ”Naa Adicha Nee Sethuruva!” - Dissecting Nayagan A critical analysis of the 1987 Tamil film, "Nayagan," which is widely regarded as one of the best movies of Maniratnam and Kamal Hassan. By Sandeep Balakrishna / 20 Jul 2022
Culture / From Independence to the Emergency: The Sordid Journey of the Downfall of Indian Cinema The downfall of Indian cinema can be traced with a cutoff point: the Emergency of 1975 and its aftermath. By Sandeep Balakrishna / 11 Jul 2022
Insight / 49 Resumes of Unemployable Leftist Relics I actually debated within myself for the last five days whether I should actually write this piece…it was more than a debate…it was a kind of soul-searching with By Sandeep Balakrishna / 29 Jul 2019