Growing up in the 1980s, it was considered good parenting to get one’s child to read the newspaper or watch the news bulletin. Then the 90s were an exciting time when private news channels started to make their presence felt in India. It was such a difference from watching the news on Doordarshan. Doordarshan was …
As a child, I remember Doordarshan would play a Spiderman episode once a week. Around the same time, local shops started selling Spiderman masks. No costume those days, but a lot of children had some weird drawing along their wrists with a bullpen, add to that the paper masks of Spiderman and imagination ran riot. …
An Ola cab driver reminences about his time in the army and his posting at Jaffna, Sri Lanka with the IPKF.
I was looking through an online conversation recently and realized that many of my friends are completely against online censorship. They do not want anyone policing or controlling what they are consuming. This can range from the types of movies to documentaries to even text that is online. But curiously, something odd is happening with …
Even though I know how to read, write and speak Marathi, I have hardly read a book written in the language. I simply never felt inclined to do so. I’ve often heard the quote ‘What will happen to our language if young people do not read books in it?’ – The problem with this argument …