Rushdie cries foul, but the refree better take the other stand! For those who thought Rushdie epitomized the fight for the right of speech and expression the writer has given a shock by being the silencing agent. The only difference now being that while...

Not recounting the biography of for-now the most discussed man, here are some implications of his “defiance”: 1) It showed that there is an actual ‘third’ path: you can oppose the UPA but not decide to vote with the BJP. 2)...

Copyleft is a movement which differentiates itself from open sourcing and copyrighting. While the open source idea is to allow free access (”free” as in “freedom”, not as in “free beer”), the danger lies in someone improving it and then...

All revolutionaries were criminals, all prophets madmen, in the eyes of the statesquoist as they floated on the decadence of their own opulence. Che is counted in, so are the innumerable burned on stakes, stones to exile, drwoned to altar of the...

Gautam Sonti has come up with Fun@Sun, a documentary on the cultural configurations in management skills, and explores a variety of such events in big corporate houses. Theatre exercises, mind-body dynamics, body language exercises, etcare now...

Theatre exercises, mind-body dynamics, body language exercises, etcare now finding an unfamiliar home as they get incorporated into corporate houses. For them the motto seems to be “all work and no play makes...”. The exercises too have...

The competition is a thing of the past. Jaane Tu is the winner, but more importantly Rahman has proven himself that he can do peppy numbers too, and not just “sulky” class movies. Starting with Roja, Rahman revolutionised Indian music,...

Congress ke haath, America ke saath says Karat. But more importantly, one should be asking for whom does Karat’s hand raise? Well, the options can be three: 1) With India. This will mean the Left position comes from a resolve not to let away the...

Toeing in the line of IITs and IIMs are now students of language, as they ready themselves to have their plunge in the corporate world. The alumni of Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL, now English and Foreign Languages...

Kerala is now fighting over a textbook. Hail the higher literacy rate, higher educational standards. But the story would drain you in embarassment, if not for its absurdity, then for the eerily regressive reality it projects. The latest chain of street...