Is Dylan going to repeat Jean-Paul Sartre’s gesture in 1964 and reject the Nobel honour? Are there grounds for Dylan to repeat Sartre?

BY Manash Bhattacharjee 26 October 2016

A poem for the iron lady of Manipur, Irom Sharmila

BY Manash Bhattacharjee 6 August 2016

For the soul of Amjad Sabri

BY Manash Bhattacharjee 29 June 2016

India, in the spirit of its rhetoric on tolerance, needs to show more solidarity towards life.

BY Manash Bhattacharjee 28 July 2015

Are we going to see a non-left party, raise the class question in Indian politics?

BY Manash Bhattacharjee 9 February 2015

We need to thank the army for the simple fact of their saving lives in Kashmir, without getting into dubious complications.

BY Manash Bhattacharjee 11 September 2014

Gangs of Wasseypur is perhaps India’s first post-nationalist film — a Nietzschean saga against a provincial backdrop, illuminating a squalid aspect of the country's political history.

BY Manash Bhattacharjee 12 July 2012

Those in opposition to the cartoon were branded politically naïve, undemocratically partisan and unenlightened victims of emotionalism. But to the ‘rationalists’ their self-representation was never a matter of doubt.

BY Manash Bhattacharjee 4 June 2012

The political class’s high-handed and noisy intervention has diverted us from the important questions. The old problem of throwing the baby with the bathwater stares at us once again.

BY Manash Bhattacharjee 21 May 2012