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(This is the latest edition of the Political Line newsletter curated by Varghese K. George. The Political Line newsletter is India’s political landscape explained every week. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox every Friday.) The changing face of Indian nationalism is now reflected in the country’s movies Manoj Kumar’s passing and Phule’s film … Read more
While Ooty and Coonoor have their bustling spots, imagine owning your own sanctuary of tranquility. Of waking up to crisp, eucalyptus-tinged air and setting out on long walks to de-stress from your city life. With the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting an “above-normal number of heatwave days” this summer, it’s no wonder people are already … Read more
A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster enjoys trivia and music, and is working on a rock ballad called ‘Coffee is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’. @bertyashley Quiz: Easy like Sunday morning – What has April 27 ever given us? This image released by NASA shows a spacecraft entering interstellar space after three decades … Read more
Family members of Uphaar Cinema fire victims pay homage during the 18th anniversary of the tragedy in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: The Hindu In the pre-privatisation era, public hospitals faced huge challenges in managing patients due to overcrowding, inadequate infrastructure such as beds and equipment, and limited resources. The 1990s were also the time … Read more
Overcoming the one-inch tall barrier that most vernacular language films get buried under, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite took home four Oscars at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020, including Best Picture, becoming the first non-English film to do so. The lockdowns that followed soon after restricted the masses to the four walls of their houses as they … Read more
Rollo Romig | Photo Credit: Evia Photos Rollo Romig, American journalist, essayist and critic, has been reporting on South India, mostly for The New York Times Magazine from 2013. He also writes for the New Yorker. His first book, I Am on the Hit List: Murder and Myth-making in South India, is an investigation into … Read more
Nithin Raj had already knocked on ten doors in a single month, each a potential home and another test. Outside yet another faded gate in central-east Hyderabad, hoodie pulled up against the December breeze, his chin-strap goatee and wild curls drew more attention than his modest 2BHK request. At every visit, the 31-year-old found himself … Read more
FILE PHOTO: Google also argued that the DOJ is unfairly targeting it in a highly competitive space (Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw & Google CEO Sundar Pichai) | Photo Credit: THB As Google rolls out a sweeping expansion of its artificial intelligence tools across search, advertising, and YouTube in India, its … Read more
Along the bustling stretch of Casa Major Road, opposite the Government Museum at Egmore, Chennai, stand the Guild of Service (Central) and the Madras School of Social Work (MSSW) that are highly regarded for their social service. Though they are independent of each other, the name of Mary Clubwala Jadhav links them by a common … Read more
Inside the expansive Annapurna Studios and its Annexe in Hyderabad, film units are busy shooting feature films, television shows, and web series across its 12 floors and backlots. Elsewhere, teams are at work in post-production, shaping content for final release. Meanwhile, students at the Annapurna College of Film and Media are learning the fundamentals of … Read more