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Madhavankutty Pillai

Madhavankutty Pillai has no specialisations whatsoever. He is among the last of the generalists. And also Open chief of bureau, Mumbai  

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Voices
The Outsiders

If migrants are responsible for crimes in India’s cities, why are they always from the labour class?

19 June 2013
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Spot the Crime

The fixing going on in the game played by the police to screw Sreesanth and Co

12 June 2013
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The ‘Why’ Delusion

Let’s stop making silly assumptions about what drove Jiah Khan to suicide

05 June 2013
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Regression Multiplied By Two

Mallika Sherawat is right and Priyanka Chopra wrong about India

29 May 2013
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Soft Brains, Hard On

What makes Mumbai’s municipal corporators demand a ban on scantily clad mannequins

22 May 2013
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Art & Culture
A Love Story With a Difference

Indian writing in English rarely ever matches the gems of vernacular literature, such as this Marathi novel

22 May 2013
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The All-Seeing Eye

What cases of police personnel getting caught on camera hitting women say about a welcome new world in the making

15 May 2013
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The Emperor’s New Values

On the absurdity of the nude dance of an NSUI president becoming such a big deal

08 May 2013
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Cinema
Karan Johar’s Gay Revolution

The filmmaker may have taken a realistic turn with homosexuality in Bombay Talkies, but he deserves credit even for silly gay portrayals in commercial films like Dostana

08 May 2013
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Art & Culture
The First Movie

The third of May marks one hundred years of the release of Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, the first ever Indian feature film. Paresh Mokashi, director of the Marathi film Harishchandrachi Factory, based on the making of Phalke’s film, recounts Phalke’s extraordinary adventure. As told to Madhavankutty Pillai

02 May 2013

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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