Archive for February, 2011

From Gospel to Heresy: The Crisis in Microfinance
February 21, 2011, No Comments

(A guest post by Malavika Raghavan. Malavika graduated from NALSAR, Hyderabad in 2008. She currently works at Allen & ...

Saat Khoon Aur!
February 20, 2011, 3 Comments

(As you might have guessed, this one’s not a review of an Oscar-nominated film. But the way Vishal Bharadwaj is go ...

Laxman, aesthetics and stoicism
February 20, 2011, 5 Comments

The world cup article in our section is about V.V.S.Laxman. This is ironical in many senses and it is not the least of t ...

The Kids Are All Right
February 19, 2011, 1 Comment

Danish reviews for us "The Kids Are All Right"; a film with an unconventional premise that draws its strength from the w ...

Five things India needs to do to win the World Cup
February 18, 2011, No Comments

These are not all-encompassing, nor are they, especially, novel ideas, but they constitute fundamental elements, which I ...

The Fighter
February 18, 2011, No Comments

Continuing our run up to the Oscars, here's guest-blogger Lekha's take on the boxing movie: The Fighter. Get over the cl ...

XI Biggest Chokes in the History of the World Cup
February 18, 2011, 2 Comments

While it provides much entertainment and many opportunities for great strokeplay, fantastic bowling and terrific fieldin ...

Two Scary Isms
February 16, 2011, 2 Comments

What makes fascism so interesting is the very saleability of its ideology. It is, by nature, exclusivist and yet, it is ...

True Grit (2010)
February 16, 2011, 6 Comments

In assessing the merits of a “re-make” or “re-interpretation” should we even be comparing two ve ...

The UID debate
February 16, 2011, No Comments

The National Identification Authority of India (NIAI) Bill, 2010, which has been referred by the Lok Sabha to the Parlia ...