Alok Rai
The writer taught in the department of English, Delhi University.
Mon, Feb 20, 2017
But Trump’s America is a latecomer. It has much to learn from Vishwaguru India.
Wed, Jan 04, 2017
The farce of TV “debates” shows us in the grip of matched opposites, good versus evil, black versus white. There is little civilised discourse. No question is open. This is the age of the slogan — and outright violence.
Fri, Oct 21, 2016
There are great advantages of redefining military action as surgery — for one, it mobilises the rhetoric of health.
Mon, May 02, 2016
‘Gurugram’ is the symptom of a disease which generates a striving to return to some previous perfection.
Tue, Feb 16, 2016
The alarming, exponential reach of the ‘anti-national’ can find you out in the most unexpected places.
Sat, Aug 01, 2015
A book on the fabled Allahabad University takes shelter in the romantic distortions of nostalgia when faced with the present.
Sat, Jun 20, 2015
The officially declared desire to go for the record must itself be a kind of record.
Fri, May 15, 2015
Salman Khan had to be sacrificed so that we can rest easy about the impersonal majesty of the law.
Sat, Mar 27, 2010
Chinua Achebe looks at the everyday life of colonialism with remarkable good humour....
