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Hindi poet and translator based in Bangalore, India.
Category: Culture
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Dear Sir One thing that has changed significantly in the past 15 years is the size and the quality of lifestyle of the Indian middle class. Lives have changed since the 1991 economic reforms. But these reforms are also responsible for the downfall of these lakhs and lakhs of farmers’ death. A country cannot run…
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I was recently watching an interview of Aamir Khan on Aaj Tak. The journalist interviewing him was asking him ridiculous questions like which actresses you want to work with, etc; pouring much unnecessary masala into it. Aamir Khan was giving well thought answers- that made sense. There was a clear distinction between the intellectual levels…
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Is it merely a coincidence that some watchable popular films have an element of untold unfinished love in them? May it be the massive Sholay or the youth heart throb Dil Chahta Hai. The common characteristics of these love stories is they are silent and often controversial.
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In a country where one scam is uncovered every second month and the scam value has a series of unending zeroes trailing behind it, who cares anymore for a hundred-crore scam? Since 1992, the total money involved in scams in India stands approximately at an enormous Rs. 73 lakh crore. Does that strike a chord?
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It is interesting how A K Ramanujan’s essay throws great light on the ways Ramayan is told in different parts of the subcontinent. I think of Ramayana as some form of true story, or folklore which got mixed up into religion and later exaggerated. I’ll try to justify Ramayana as a story that can be…
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 