Opinion

Although the National Democratic Alliance government predictably defeated the no-confidence motion against it, it did not do so well in the war of values

Crossed lines

Go it alone

Ruffled feathers

Tough to tell

Against the clock

Footnote

Plastic free

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But will you? Are you willing? Do you wish to? What about? Should I be afraid? Should I be pleased? Should I be apprehensive about it or should I await it? Your talking to me? What will you tell me?

Allez Fraaaaanceeee!...Allez Les Bleus!!... Allez Parissssss!!! The chants filled the beach, pubs and restaurants of Pondicherry on the night of the Fifa World Cup finals.

The colour blackRace to the finishThe whitewash

Milan Kundera once spoke of the importance, for subjects of a totalitarian regime, of 'the struggle of memory against forgetting.' As important, to the citizens of a (professedly) democratic regime, is the struggle of satire against power. Rahul Gandhi has been the butt of jokes ever since he entered politics, and, more recently, Narendra Modi has found himself mocked in private, on social media, and in print. His frequent references to himself in the third person, the astonishing suit with his name on it which he wore when meeting Barack Obama, and his tendency to clasp foreign leaders in close, crippling hugs have all attracted a flood of jokes, both visual and verbal.

As Americans started slowly moving on from the revelry of the Independence Day of the United States of America, it was time to celebrate the French Independence Day. Millions of people around the world, French and otherwise, celebrate Bastille Day, to commemorate the storming of the Bastille prison during the French Revolution. Last year, President Donald Trump visited Paris for the Bastille Day celebrations, as the day marked a year since a terrorist attack shook the nation and caused the deaths of more than 80 people.

Memory as Practice, Memory as Ethics; Bringing South Asia together in Kolkata, (June 23-July 21) at Ganges Art gallery and curated by Kurchi Dasgupta and Amritah Sen, one needs an artist's statement of some kind, to make sure that one is not barking up the wrong tree while reviewing a show. There are 13 artists from eight countries here.

Swapnasandhani staged an adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 this summer. Considering the group's reputation rests primarily on plays questioning the State machinery, the choice seemed pretty obvious. For a change, Swapnasandhani roped in Debesh Chattopadhyay to script and direct 1984.