Anand Vardhan

Patna loses its star

Patna loses its star

After Shatrughan Sinha, Sushant Singh Rajput was probably the first actor from the state who could find space as the…

June 19, 2020

Virtuous simplicity

Basu Chatterjee's legacy is the endearing depiction of middle-class life shorn of melodrama Urban India’s middle-class young man of the…

June 12, 2020

Not done, ICC

India-England women’s T20 World Cup semi-final is the latest example of the governing body’s lack of foresight THERE ARE ways…

March 21, 2020

SAARC always a priority

New Delhi has gravitated towards other regional groupings in recent years, but it has always used SAARC to achieve specific…

March 20, 2020

No laughing matter

Like the selectivity infested news media, the online cottage industry of political satire has chosen to see only what it…

March 2, 2020

Reinforcing old metropolitan biases

AAP making fun of Manoj Tiwari’s Bhojpuri work betrays cultural insensitivity A FEW days into the campaign for the Delhi…

January 28, 2020

Presenting BBC’s best player of 2019 – Ben Stokes

England’s success and star appeal of its players is a welcome change from the cloying subcontinent fixation that world cricket…

December 24, 2019

Confronting brutality

How efficient can policing be as a bulwark against the most brutal side of human nature? “She lay there, punctured…

December 9, 2019

The fickle nature of internet fame

Such rags-to-riches stories with generous interventions of luck, only make fans experience the short, tantalising distance from their own slice…

November 29, 2019