Sunil Menon

Sunil Menon

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  • The Monarch's Notes

    No recordings of his exist, but every classical musician bows to Ustad Alladiya Khan. In plain vanilla format, here's why.

    BY Sunil Menon 5 February 2022

    The Monarch's Notes
  • What If Ingleesh Is Free?

    What an option it might have been! A Sanskritised landscape! Taporis spouting Kalidasa...LS debates in devabhasha (Krama! Krama! Aham Somanatha Chattopadhyaya vadaami!...)

    BY Sunil Menon 5 February 2022

    What If Ingleesh Is Free?
  • Shhh... It's A Free Country

    Everything, it seems, has a limit. Why does the media start haemorrhaging at the prospect of India's fringe breaking its silence? Are we afraid of our democracy?

    BY Sunil Menon 5 February 2022

    Shhh... It's A Free Country
  • Song Of Amnesia

    The film song is mass hypnotism, an aid to help us forget. But the past never leaves.

    BY Sunil Menon 5 February 2022

    Song Of Amnesia
  • Bull's Eye

    Making bold to explore a humbler method to crack the dimly understood laws of international relations. An unofficial oral history of geopolitics.

    BY Sunil Menon 5 February 2022

    Bull's Eye
  • Bull's Eye

    "Sir, what is the time?" Man 2, glancing at watch, gravely, "It’s too late." Too late for what? "Too late for you and me."

    BY Sunil Menon 5 February 2022

    Bull's Eye
  • Bull's Eye

    Pakistan’s again at what hacks love to euphemise as an "inflexion point" in its history. Nawaz Sharif is again the paragon of liberty..One feels sorry for Musharraf...

    BY Sunil Menon 5 February 2022

    Bull's Eye
  • Bull's Eye

    So we don't just live next door to Absurdistan, it's in our marrow. As Advani once said, "Desh ka vayumandal kharab hai". (He wasn't talking carbon emissions.)

    BY Sunil Menon 5 February 2022

    Bull's Eye

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