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Rushdie, Haasan, Nandy: Till when will we cave in?

Mitali Saran on why Indians always adopt the brace position while standing up to intimidation Salman Rushdie found the perfect phrase when he said, during a recent television interview, that India......

Is freedom of speech a principle worth defending?

Freedom of expression cannot be constrained when it comes to books and encouraged when it comes to violence, says Mitali Saran. The drama about cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, tossed in the clink by......

Let's talk about sex, baby

's ears turn red every time the three-letter word is mentioned - even as its population and sexual violence balloon - and that has to change, explains Mitali Saran Everyone leapt down......

Go, get out there with a placard

Mitali Saran believes that a little yelling in the streets can help the government to prioritise the work it does or facilitates on the groundOnce upon a time, I almost died. Well, I almost died......

Bal Thackeray was a cartoonist, and not a bad one at that

It is a shame that a bright man with a clear political agenda should have arrogated to himself the right to say things deeply offensive to other people, but trampled on the right to a contrary......

Are we prisoners of our tedious working habits?

Work lends purpose to life, and contributes to an economic machine that we benefit from-but only up to a point, says Mitali Saran.What we think of as "normal" is constantly evolving. Somewhere......

What a fool I have been!

'Paying my taxes, diligently repaying my loans, following the rules, scrupulously doing things by the book, when there's this big, beautiful world of unregulated chicanery I could have indulged in......

The revulsion! The betrayal. The realisation you knew all along

'I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I know that everyone is behaving as if they've just discovered that their favourite grandfather is a peeping tom,' says Mitali Saran. My eyes generally......

Of Modi's silence and huge waste of resources

The Statue of Unity the prime minister is building in Gujarat is a disgraceful waste of resources that does nothing for India except add a big fat bill, says Mitali Saran. Twitter has been overrun......

On Planet Nihalani, reality is defamation

'The most unusual howls of protest from Bollywood have shown that even people known for party drugs draw the line somewhere,' says Mitali Saran. When I was sixteen, Aldous Huxley's The Doors of......

Sacred Games is terrific!

'As I watched Sacred Games, I kept flinching at the thought of all the thorns poised to lodge themselves in the sides of the thin-skinned,' says Mitali Saran. IMAGE: Nawazuddin Siddique as the......

Time to have an adult as Censor chief

'I've always figured that it's the people who don't get laid enough, or well enough, who feel compelled to constrain and tear down anyone who looks as if they're having a good time,' says Mitali......

The Indians who made us proudest in Rio are all women

'Sakshi Malik's medal is her individual and singular accomplishment.''So is P V Sindhu's badminton medal.''So is Dipa Karmakar's loss-by-a-whisker.''So is the surprise that is 18-year-old golfer......