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The writer is a senior journalist who writes on media affairs, politics and social trends.
    Ranjona Banerji | Feel The Pinch? Don’t Ya Dare Whine About LPGColumnists
    Ranjona Banerji | Feel The Pinch? Don’t Ya Dare Whine About LPG

    And then there are those geniuses who jump straight into the “in my day we had no piped or cylinder gas” stories

    21 March 2026 11:21 PM IST

    Book Review | Unselfconscious Chronicle of an Overlooked CityBooks
    Book Review | Unselfconscious Chronicle of an Overlooked City

    This is neither a sentimental nor a self-conscious book, although it is redolent with the author’s memories of the city...

    7 March 2026 1:07 PM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | Of God And Other Critical NarrativesColumnists
    Ranjona Banerji | Of God And Other Critical Narratives

    The bald truth is that I have made some meaningless statements. Nature exists whether I believe or not. And the laws of...

    21 Feb 2026 11:21 PM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | May Your Eyelashes Remain Safe In 2026!Columnists
    Ranjona Banerji | May Your Eyelashes Remain Safe In 2026!

    I have now got used to the Internet or more correctly, social media’s ideas of generational conflict. I belong to the...

    10 Jan 2026 10:56 PM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | Why I’m Not Booking My Next Holiday To BarcelonaColumnists
    Ranjona Banerji | Why I’m Not Booking My Next Holiday To Barcelona

    But the people of Barcelona don’t want me. Not me specifically. I mean, I hope not

    20 Dec 2025 11:40 PM IST

    Book Review | A Travelogue of Life Amidst SilenceBooks
    Book Review | A Travelogue of Life Amidst Silence

    Learning from Silence is a travelogue of sorts, as much internal as external

    6 Dec 2025 1:45 PM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | My Big City Romance’s Curious Final ActColumnists
    Ranjona Banerji | My Big City Romance’s Curious Final Act

    I grew up between Bombay and Calcutta and worked mainly in Bombay and Mumbai. Therefore, the big city was in fact my...

    29 Nov 2025 11:49 PM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | Targeting The Ugly Indian: New India Myth Justified?Columnists
    Ranjona Banerji | Targeting The Ugly Indian: New India Myth Justified?

    The Internet is flooded with videos and images of Indians “misbehaving”, in India and in other lands

    11 Oct 2025 9:32 PM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | 2 Ways To Kill Free Speech: ‘Kindness’ & Brute ForceColumnists
    Ranjona Banerji | 2 Ways To Kill Free Speech: ‘Kindness’ & Brute Force

    But conversely, I pondered over the other trend to say whatever hurtful things you want about other people because you...

    20 Sept 2025 11:02 PM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | Dharali Paid Price of our ‘Progress’, Mumbai Next?Columnists
    Ranjona Banerji | Dharali Paid Price of our ‘Progress’, Mumbai Next?

    From Mumbai’s floods to Uttarakhand’s landslides, climate change and reckless construction are turning natural...

    24 Aug 2025 6:19 PM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | What Reels May Come (before I fall asleep…)Columnists
    Ranjona Banerji | What Reels May Come (before I fall asleep…)

    Sleep, fingers, brain. Or maybe brain, fingers, sleep. Or the random order that I chose. Anyone one of those can be...

    19 July 2025 11:25 PM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | Why I’d Rather Live In The Global SouthColumnists
    Ranjona Banerji | Why I’d Rather Live In The Global South

    But we are the brown and black people, hence South. It is never clear to me where the Chinese stand on this, because...

    15 Jun 2025 12:31 AM IST

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