In his essay, “The Politics of Assassination of Gandhi”, Ashis Nandy argues that Gandhian ideas posed a threat to the traditional Indian society.

After the end of the Cold War and the subsequent “unipolar moment” in the 1990s, the US foreign policy significantly focused on the promotion of democracy and ...

It has been a while since 2024 is over--and it is time for a 2024 recap. Years pass by, and with every new year, we reflect on how previous year was.

It’s that time of the month when I provide an update on my PhD. And in this newsletter, I discuss how I tried to take a meaningful break from PhD.

MC Jithin’s directional ‘Sookshmadarshini’ is a Malayalam fun thriller, moves away from a conventional police procedural when a crime happens.

Dinjith Ayyathan’s ‘Kishkindha Kaandam’, a 2024 Malayalam thriller, enmeshes emotions, familial relations, and mystery in his storytelling. Monikered after Ramayana’s Kishkindha Kaandam, where Lord ...

Manjummel Boys (2024), directed by Chidambaram, is a Malayalam survival thriller inspired by a real-life incident from 2006 in Guna Caves in Kodaikanal.

Mehta asks: “Despite having a functioning democracy for almost five decades, does the entire repertoire of our habits and practices outside the sphere of formal politics conduce to the formation of ...

I finished watching this Netflix drama series, ‘Adolescence’, the transitional phase from a child to becoming an adult definitely feels difficult.

When I watched Jeo Baby’s Malayalam movie “The Great Indian Kitchen”, I felt unease about gender dynamics that sustain Indian households.

What starts off as a dabbawalla home business in Thane’s suburbs spirals into a drug operation in this new thriller ‘Dabba Cartel’, monikered ‘Narcos Thane’. A homemaker, Raji (Shalini Pandey), her ...