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You don't say 6 Mar 2012 | 07:40 pm
In this month's issue of The Caravan, I looked at the regulations that have led to unprecedented levels of self-censorship on modern Indian television. As channels grow more reluctant of causing offen...
Chemistry 8 Feb 2012 | 04:56 am
This is an incredible comic. (via @mantaraycomics)
Kapil Sibal's super amazing plan to boost social science research that will change everything and lead to more enlightened policy, etc. 7 Feb 2012 | 08:08 pm
Giving them awards. (Poetry, tablets, taming the internet, and now this. Seriously, is there any problem Sibal can't solve?)
Rights for votes 7 Feb 2012 | 08:04 pm
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Eric Bellman reports on developing countries demanding more rights for their overseas laborers. The millions who go abroad to take jobs as domestic workers - mostly w...
Obituaries deserve better 7 Feb 2012 | 04:44 pm
The first paragraph of Mumbai Mirror's remembrance of Sharada Dwivedi: It is rather ironical that writer-historian-author of several books on Mumbai, who was instrumental in forming the Kala Ghoda Ar...
How can I invest in Rohit Shetty? 7 Feb 2012 | 05:19 am
I just realized that Rohit Shetty has directed five movies in four years. And if all his announced projects come to fruition, he will have eight movies in six by the end of next year. Shetty doesn't ...
Not as global as kabaddi 6 Feb 2012 | 11:09 pm
In one devastating paragraph, Sambit Bal tells you why cricket isn't a global game: Only notionally is cricket a global game. It is a mainstream sport only in ten countries. Of these, nearly half can...
What liberty should be 6 Feb 2012 | 09:06 pm
Like me, a lot of you probably haven't heard about the Whitney v California case from 1927. I just stumbled up on the case, and can't help but envy the society that benefits from it. The judgement is ...
The man with no name 1 Feb 2012 | 03:43 am
It's been interesting to see how people refer to Shirish Kunder. Many identified him by name, of course, but a noticeable number didn't. Our biggest English paper referred to him as Farah Khan's husba...
Caravan reportage: Mark Mascarenhas 1 Feb 2012 | 01:22 am
The February 2012 issue of The Caravan contains my first story for the magazine. In it I take a look back at Mark Mascarenhas, Indian cricket's first superstar agent, who also ushered in a new underst...
