That the nation persists is what has lent the India story such gravitas: an idea that’s taken strong root. But will the march of history leave us behind?
Our representatives have failed us dismally, so it’s time to bring people directly into the process of legislation. In the IT age, this should be easy.
The crumby details of Indian life around ’80 went with an ardent hope for progress. It’s replaced by the new prosperity’s handmaidens: apathy, intolerance.
I yield to no one in my support for Salman’s right to be at Jaipur or his right to publish freely, but his manipulation and stoking of the protests ensured he would remain the principal topic at the festival on all five days
The Evam Entertainment co-founder, actor and director on his production The Long Way Home, the first Chennai play to feature at the NCPA’s theatre festival Writer’s Bloc 3 in Mumbai
