Bollywood’s Article 15, or, How to Be Ashamed of Your Country, by Sheer Ignorance
One can summarize Anubhav Sinha’s Article 15, Bollywood’s latest venture in demonizing India, her society and Hinduism by a few crisp phrases: terribly cheesy dialogues, second-rate acting, and cheap leftist More...
Could Samskara be an answer to #MeToo?
Of late, several personalities from the world of media, comedy, film and journalism have been outed on social media with the hashtag #MeToo for their atrocious behavior towards women[1]. This recent exposé is not More...
Bollywood’s passive-aggressive attitude towards Hinduism
My daughter was insisting that we watch “funny videos” on YouTube (casting on TV) while she had her scrambled egg breakfast and waited for her math teacher to show up. When I started the YouTube app, I came More...
Bahubali’s Mahishmati: A glimpse into magnificent architecture of ancient India
People who have watched the Bahubali movie are mesmerized by the grandeur depicted in every scene. The design of Mahishmati is out of the world and is beyond anything that we see around us and can imagine. It surpasses More...
Sensible Cinema and Natyashastra
Last few days, cinema lovers have been reading Bahubali 2 movie reviews one after the other. There are few other reasons listed, but most reviews are about this: Bahubali fan reviews are about unapologetic and fantastic More...
Why liberals hate Baahubali?
Liberals hate Baahubali! Their reasons range from obvious to ridiculous, but they are unanimous in their intense hatred for something so deeply and intensely loved by Indian masses. Baahubali is yet another case More...
Dholkal Ganesh and the Sad Tale Of Apathy
Fifty-six stone fragments lying forlornly on a blue tarpaulin. You can see the vermilion mark still on the part that used to be the face, as the trunk turns gracefully. A fragment that formed the large stomach still More...
Bollywood, Maoists and Lutyens Media: An unholy threesome
We woke up to two pieces of news this Saturday. The first: public-outcry on Sanjay Leela Bhansali for misrepresenting Rajput history. The second: of a 1,000 year old Ganesha sculpture in Chattisgarh being destroyed More...
Culture Wars against Hindus
The foremost source of unrelenting and egregious slander against Hindus is India’s film industry, led by Bollywood. Pakistani marauders were halted at the border in 1948 and repudiated every time subsequently, More...
Bollywood as a mix of junk food and Islamism
We eat junk food with the full knowledge that it is, well, junk. We crave it, gorge on it, all in the name of taste and don’t care how much of a land whale and waste dump it makes out of us. We justify it even More...