An old Hindi song from my childhood had the following memorable lyrics- अमन के दुश्मन जंग के बेटे भूल गये अब चाल ऍटम बॉम्ब से जा टकराया वीर जवाहरलाल (enemies of peace, sons of war have all forgotten their moves. The Brave Jawaharal went and took atom bomb head-on)....
Vinayak Damodar or “Swatantryaveer” Savarkar, has been subject to some of the most bitter exchanges in today’s social discourse. With the Congress led left propogandists often dismiss him as a coward who pleaded for clemency. However, outside social media and...
In a South Indian film I had seen in my childhood (most probably Shankarabharanam but I am not sure), there is a telling scene where some young kids fooling around with modern musical instruments get into an argument and subsequent bet with a classical Carnatic...
At one point, Bassam, the protagonist of Rawi Hage’s stunning debut novel DeNiro’s Game, reminisces about how as children, he would collect brass shells, expelled from soldiers’ guns and trade them with other boys. In many ways, this pointlessly dangerous pursuit...
The universality of socio-economic fault lines and its accompanying social ills have made writers of varying capabilities to explore them since time immemorial. The results have ranged from the sublime and the searing to exploitative and unintentionally hilarious....
