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Ranjona Banerji
About the AuthorRanjona Banerji
The writer is a senior journalist who writes on media affairs, politics and social trends.
    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

    Ranjona Banerji | Can’t Peace Be Both The End And Means?Columnists
    Ranjona Banerji | Can’t Peace Be Both The End And Means?

    How advantageous is it to keep fighting with your neighbour, when a small amount of compromise can perhaps lead to a...

    24 May 2025 11:29 PM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | Stop Griping About ‘Toxic Masculinity’Columnists
    Ranjona Banerji | Stop Griping About ‘Toxic Masculinity’

    How does one define toxic masculinity? The term became popular in the 1980s and ‘90s in academia

    27 April 2025 12:23 AM IST

    Book Review | Solving the final puzzle of deathBooks
    Book Review | Solving the final puzzle of death

    Ramakrishnan takes us through several streams of thought, some interconnected, some independent, which appear to be...

    12 April 2025 11:43 AM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | Will April bring more roads we do not need?Columnists
    Ranjona Banerji | Will April bring more roads we do not need?

    Just about every weekend, environmental organisations, civil society groups and concerned citizens collect at a chosen...

    22 March 2025 11:56 PM IST

    Ranjona Banerji | Is a foolish ‘friend’ worse than a ghosting frenemy?Columnists
    Ranjona Banerji | Is a foolish ‘friend’ worse than a ghosting frenemy?

    The more intelligent people are, the more difficult I find it to excuse their stupidity

    22 Feb 2025 11:24 PM IST

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