Books

So what are your thoughts on the OTT platform that are now democratising the whole industry to a large extent? I am greatly interested in the OTT platforms, not just in India but also in Italy. I fee...

In 1939, when Beverly Cleary was a children’s librarian in Yakima, Washington, she had a tough time finding books to recommend to her young readers. They wanted to read about “normal, ever...

Sadly, My Life in Red and White won’t answer such questions. It will paint an intriguing story of the early life of Wenger, how he grew up in rural Alsace, in the east of France. You w...

The available data on the prevalence of family planning practices among Muslims in India, on the other hand, do not show a radically different trend from other communities. As a matter of fact, the NF...

7 Prince with a Paintbrush: The Story of Raja Ravi Varma by Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan (Red Panda; Rs 250) To be launched in April, this book brings alive the stellar artworks of famed painter Raja Ra...

Advertisement is like Botox — well almost. It helps smoothen wrinkles — real and metaphorical — with or without consent. So it has been with a commercial on Facebook featur...

The pandemic has revealed newer aspects of our fallback to idiocy, violence and brutality — the swampy backwaters of instinctual fears, prejudices and perceptions our minds had once crawled thro...

The courts also chimed in with their approval of polygraph, brain scanning and narcoanalysis, even deeming that consent from the accused was irrelevant before administering these methods. They agreed ...

“Manusmrti, and its precepts, have remained a central iconic text in the sanctioning of caste and gender hierarchies, repression, and political subjugation (p.31).” “Normative Brahma...

THE MAPPING OF MEANING The Trespasser raises a lot of intriguing questions, but none more vital than the question of who gets to decide the meaning of a story. The mapping of meaning in The Trespass...