Legalizing Gay Sex in India Does Not Mean Getting Rid of Discrimination
This revolution was televised. I watched on TV as friends of mine huddled together in a café in Kolkata as the verdict on Section 377 came out. They had come
Sandip Roy
Why Indians Need An Urgent Lesson In Identifying Racism
For too many Indians racism is a one-way street. We can be its victims but we are never the perpetrators. We are quick to recognize it when it happens to us. Fo
Maya, Marquez, Mandela and Our Facebook Posts
I have never read a book by Maya Angelou. However I must confess when Maya Angelou died I immediately felt I needed to Google “inspirational quotes Maya Angel
Without Subtitles: The Sholay Test
I grew up in one of those Bengali families that rarely went to the theater to watch a Hindi film. Despite its sixty golden jubilees even Sholay could not breach
No Amma For America
The truest thing former US Secretary of State Colin Powell said in his leaked emails is the one least talked about: “It is time to start ignoring [Donald Trum
Rapists Aren’t Victims
Sometimes it’s just 20 minutes of action behind a dumpster. Sometimes it’s just the time it takes to go up and down an elevator. But lives are “deeply alt
The Gay Kiss of Death
There is a gay kiss of death in Bollywood. That seems to be the clear suggestion of veteran film critic and journalist Subhash K Jha. Jha has come up with a gal
Image Management 101: Decoding Narendra Modi’s Time Interview
As Narendra Modi rolls up to his first anniversary, it’s not all coming up roses. The disquiet has less to do with the Vipassana-enhanced Rahul Gandhi than so
Hate Speech is OK, But Not on FaceBook
Irony just died a hundred times over in Uttar Pradesh. A teenager found himself in police lock-up because of something he shared on Facebook. A post that was de
Is Bobby Jindal Ashamed of his Indian Roots?
The fault is not with Bobby Jindal as much as it is with the Indian American community which is so anxious to hold him up as its golden success story. Jindal is
Karma Hurts!
This is a bona fide CTRL-ALT-DEL moment for Satya Nadella. The Microsoft CEO is having to go through a system reboot after having told the audience at the Grace
Status Insanity
I In India the iPhone makes your life complicated before it makes it simpler. A friend got an iPhone because she could not call Uber cabs on her Blackberry. Tha
