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Exploring the layers of hypocrisy in Anil Yadav's 'Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers'

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- If you're Indian, you are in all likelihood familiar with the concept of double lives hidden in plain sight. Due to the entrenchment of sociopolitical orthodoxies, people resort... Read More


Book review: Anil Yadav's 'Courtesans Don't Read Newspapers' explores layers of hypocrisy in society

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- If you're Indian, you are in all likelihood familiar with the concept of double lives hidden in plain sight. Due to the entrenchment of sociopolitical orthodoxies, people resort... Read More


A new series on the rise of Mussolini lays bare the Fascist playbook

New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- It's difficult to play it straight with period dramas these days. Viewers expect to find modern-day references or resonances in them; this in turn becomes a way for studios to s... Read More


Ghazala Wahab's new book looks into the 'diseased' heart of the Hindi belt

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- What is wrong with the "Hindi heartland"? Like a lot of Bihari professionals living in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, I have often been asked variants of this question. A colleague... Read More


A new book looks at Michael Douglas and the confused American man

New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Director Oliver Stone's 2010 film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps saw him return to one of the most memorable characters he'd created: the ruthless, glib corporate raider Gordon G... Read More


Writer Gideon Haigh on the foremost rivalry in cricket today

New Delhi, July 17 -- A line cricket fans and writers love to quote is Trinidadian historian and Marxist scholar C.L.R. James' "What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?" James meant that ... Read More


Gurnaik Johal's 'Saraswati': A complex debut that misses the mark on majoritarian politics

New Delhi, July 11 -- British-Asian writer Gurnaik Johal's ambitious debut novel Saraswati begins with Satnam (a Punjabi Londoner), one of the novel's main characters, staring at a well he has just in... Read More