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Of nationalism and the stories of wars we tell

India, Nov. 16 -- "You were engaged in a deeply intellectual conversation on his reverse ageing," pinged this author's phone with several photos and this text, suitably punctuated by winks and smileys... Read More


India's war films: Of nationalism and the stories we tell

India, Nov. 15 -- "You were engaged in a deeply intellectual conversation on his reverse ageing," pinged this author's phone with several photos and this text, suitably punctuated by winks and smileys... Read More


The true meaning of politeness, and its limits

India, Nov. 10 -- Last month, this author wrote the obituary of politeness only to be forced to write this more qualified sequel, positing politeness to be a one-way street only a select few are entit... Read More


Truth to power, told through cinema

India, Nov. 2 -- "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the society", said Percy Bysshe Shelley in 19th-century England while critiquing the many colonial projects his motherland was going stron... Read More