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Chicken mandi poster featuring Lord Krishna was not a ‘designer’s mistake’

I'm sorry that I'm late in telling you this, but this is what happens when you don't know a language. At the outset, I...

Chiraiya shows something that doesn’t exist

Sorry to the fans of Chiraiya, but what you have been told is a lie. To those who don’t know, at the end of...

The desecularisation of Hindu festivals is a compulsion now

This is it. I can’t take it anymore. Celebrating Holi by standing on the walls of a temple at Assi Ghat, Varanasi, while smoking...

Why Raulane’s takeover by content creators must concern us

Faces hidden, yet the Himachali aesthetic alone steals the show. In November 2025, these words, paired with mesmerising photographs, flooded timelines across Instagram, X...

De-Macaulayising the mind: Rajaji, the NEP and Bharat’s structural reorientation

In the winter of 1911, as the dust of the Delhi Durbar settled over the plains of Shahjahanabad, King George V laid the foundation...

Gone are the freedoms of self-sufficiency, the peace of self-dependence

Taking a bath was a simple activity, back in the 1980s. While many of our homes had bathrooms, men seldom had a bath inside....

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