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Monday, February 23, 2009 12:15 PM

India (and ma) at the Oscars

After Sean Penn beat Micky Rourke to win the best actor award (Penn is a god who is bound to see lots of future Oscar glory, but Rourke's once-in-a-lifetime performance in The Wrestler is truly brilliant), my stomach knotted up. Would Benjamin Button...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 1:40 PM

Pub culture, Barkha, Slumdog: You shut up, you stupid

Is it just me or have you noticed that the quality of public debate has plummeted in recent years? We are rabidly intolerant of a view that doesn't agree with ours. Even worse, we don't know why. God forbid you say you actually enjoyed Slumdog...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:15 PM

At the Republic Day parade, culture = tourism

I dragged the husband to the Republic Day Parade in Delhi yesterday. He’s a parade veteran; his father has been parade commander on more than one occasion. Me, I’ve only caught the action on Doordarshan. But watching tiny figures scroll across the screen...
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Friday, January 23, 2009 2:35 PM

What's your Slumdog opinion?

Why do so many Indians find Slumdog Millionaire offensive? Growing up in Mumbai, one of my childhood fears was always that I would be kidnapped by an evil begging cartel and that they would cut off my arms to make me an object of greater sympathy. It...
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