Vamsee Juluri is Professor of Media Studies, University of San Francisco
What Telugu cinema’s ‘nativity’ represents and why it matters to a global audience
A skillful biography that does not deserve any of the media brouhaha around its ‘sensational’ bits
A comforting word after a silly answer, measuring out school with 12 years of Amar Chitra Katha, and a letter too late
Children are named after him, fans were sometimes pacified by his darshan, and he worried Kamal Haasan might slay his mother. Vamsee Juluri on growing up as the son of Telugu superstar Jamuna
CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
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 is the author of several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.
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