A Permanent Struggle

Freedom Issue 2018

Open

The Age of Cretinism: India's reactionary modernism

Haunted by the Ghosts of Babi Yar

Ajay Kamalakaran

Ajay Kamalakaran visits the site of a mass grave in the Ukraine where over 34,000 Jews were gunned down by Nazis and local accomplices in 1941

Guest Column

Manmatha Nath Dutt—Sanskrit and English

Bibek Debroy

Had Manmatha Nath Dutt studied in Oriental Seminary, Rabindranath Tagore would have known him personally, as a co-pupil

Cinema

The Spy Who Dumped Me Movie Review

Ajit Duara

There is no doubt that the two actresses have good chemistry and could pull off the spoof, at least halfway

Cinema

Vishwaroopam 2 Movie Review

Ajit Duara

It is a badly written pastiche of some new locations and sequences that are stitched together in patchwork form with the first film

Essay

The Age of Cretinism

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

India’s reactionary modernism

Freedom Issue 2018

S Prasannarajan

Freedom requires sobering storytellers of the nation

In Memoriam

M Karunanidhi (1924-2018): End of an Epic

Vaasanthi

He scripted the most enduring show of Dravidian politics

Descendants

Open

A personal history of freedom | Living with memory and legacy

Descendants

The Legacy of Madan Mohan Malaviya

Aresh Shirali

It varies even within his family

Essay

Economic Lessons From the Raj

Zareer Masani

The myth of colonial plunder