The bard's classic play resonates in a different context and in a different culture
A forgotten poem written by Indian-English novelist Raja Rao in his mother tongue, in 1931 is re discovered by a literary enthusiast
BY Sugata Srinivasaraju 7 July 2011
It is not just about black money. Ramdev's other demands, where he tries to emerge as a spokesperson of native cultures and local languages, need to be debated rather than allowing them to be appropriated for a far-Right agenda
BY Sugata Srinivasaraju 29 June 2011
BSY has earned the reputation of being a cat with nine lives, but then, even according to the proverb, it is important for the central BJP leadership to realise that the cat has only nine lives.
BY Sugata Srinivasaraju 5 June 2011
Do we need a powerful individual or a great institution? The question needs to be resolved now.
BY Sugata Srinivasaraju 29 May 2011
The faceless, cringing Pakistani, the eight-pack American and the royal Lilliput -- why do we like to morph complex, collective communities into eager, anxious, depressed, ecstatic or sullen individuals?
BY Sugata Srinivasaraju 19 May 2011
Who defines Sathya Sai Baba? His rich and powerful followers or his meek and poor devotees?
BY Sugata Srinivasaraju 2 May 2011
An epistolary encounter between a Gandhian physicist and Puttaparthi Sathya Sai Baba in the 1970s
BY Sugata Srinivasaraju 22 April 2011
A postmortem of the Jantar Mantar phenomenon
BY Sugata Srinivasaraju 14 April 2011
When it comes to the universal and the local, we can broadly distinguish between two categories of people: there are ones who learn to pan the world and there are others who decide to dig a place deep
BY Sugata Srinivasaraju 31 March 2011
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