Saturday, 02 December 2023
Saturday, 02 December 2023
POLITICS AND PLAY || The poems and songs that constitute the world of H-Pop aim at rewriting the past to paint Muslims as perfidious and Hindus as noble and valiant
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
The duality of the names, ‘India’ (also Hindustan) and ‘Bharat’, is a testimony to the plural cultural heritage that the Constitution acknowledged. Altering that would be an attack on that heritage
KANAD SINHA
The fame of one profession or a large number of the famous emerging from just a few workspaces results in the over-prioritising of those occupations. Cricket is a great example
T.M. KRISHNA
I do not know how the song got its Grammy nomination and I do not want to know. But I want to nominate the prime minister for an Oscar for his performance in it. It is high time he got the award
CHANDRIMA S. BHATTACHARYA
The Swedish city of Lulea took steps to encourage its population of 80,000 to say 'hello' to each other. WHO has also launched an international commission to look into the malaise
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Meghna Gulzar-helmed Sam Bahadur, headlined by Vicky Kaushal, opened with a meagre Rs 5 crore on the same day
