A dissection of the death of an idea that played out on primetime TV.

BY Anuradha Raman 1 April 2015

It has been a favourite playground for governments in power. And this tradition has endured…

BY Anuradha Raman 22 January 2015

'All majoritarian groups feel emboldened. Many fascist groups in the nation desire to suppress free thought and expression. Thiruchencode has become a laboratory. What happens here will affect writers across the nation.'

BY Anuradha Raman 7 January 2015

And now a protest and bandh in Tiruchengode, in Western Tamil Nadu, against a 2010 novel, set a century back, about consensual sex outside of marriage

BY Anuradha Raman 7 January 2015

As verdict 2013 rolls out, what has the broom, that has mauled the waving hand and stopped the lotus from completely blooming, achieved in Delhi?

BY Anuradha Raman 7 December 2013

The Prasar Bharati CEO shoots off an angry, no-holds-barred letter to the I&B minister Manish Tewari, telling him where he gets off

BY Anuradha Raman 25 September 2013

Much din has been created about the I&B ministry's directive to shift the telecast of The Dirty Picture from 12 noon to after 11 pm. Perhaps it's time for a little perspective.

BY Anuradha Raman 24 April 2012

Despite impoverishment beyond imagination, caste and religion are strong emotive factors here that the issue of development will find difficult to dislodge

BY Anuradha Raman 16 February 2012

'Once they come to power they will behave responsibly,' he says. 'People don't really mean what they say during elections...'

BY Anuradha Raman 14 February 2012

Soul searching? Hardly. The "emergency protocol" that some news channels rolled out in a hurry is just a pithy reconstruction of a code that the government itself had put together two years ago. Why the hysteria then? And why the hurried embrace now?

BY Anuradha Raman 18 December 2008