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The writer is a senior journalist who writes on media affairs, politics and social trends.

Childrens literature, if you can call Tolkien that, has been a go-to from whenever I stopped being a child, if that ever happens either. (By arrangement)

Ranjona Banerji | Freedom, as understood by escapists and readers

Those fables and fairy tales told to children follow similar patterns: that adults can be evil, you have to look out for...

16 May 2021 8:02 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Old sport! The story of my fitness journey

After you reach a certain age and size, in my case at least, your thoughts turn to another age and size, largely...

18 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

One of the biggest achievements of this book is the lucid, non-judgmental manner in which Mahapatra debunks all the various swirls of misinformation around Covid-19 and its spread. DC Image

Book Review: Urgent, cogent, matter-of-fact ready-reckoner on the...

'Covid-19' does not just tackle the pandemic from scientific perspective but looks at historic, social and psychological...

11 April 2021 8:34 AM IST

One asked me to look up the Internet for recipes, the other explained how to cook the kachnar.

Ranjona Banerji | What cooking teaches, how tastes are learned

I really learnt how to cook by experimentation. And by eating. To replicate tastes and memories

21 March 2021 4:27 AM IST

Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here By Aakar Patel. (Photo: Facebook @westlandbooks )

Ranjona Banerji | How atavism became ideology and Hindutva ambushed...

'Our Hindu Rashtra' is more a presentation of our recent history from the perspective of democracy

28 Feb 2021 4:09 AM IST

Its not all sapsuckers and sappy stories. There are those harsh realities of the countryside. Of the lack of basic amenities. Health, education, migration for work. Of environmental destruction and the resultant devastation. (Photo: PTI)

Ranjona Banerji | Concrete threat, but there's bignonia, and birdsong

Dehradun has no buzz. It has higgledy-piggledy growth. Almost none of it is organic

21 Feb 2021 4:37 AM IST

Im not the sort of writer who spent the Pandemic lockdown carefully crafting my creative skills and honing my talent so I could write that exemplar novel, that series of high philosophy essays to understand humanity, that definitive book on the state of the nation. (Representative Photo)

Ranjona Banerji | My one true calling and how life got in the way

As an adolescent, like most others, I wrote those poems. Emotions crystallized in show-off nonsense from studying...

17 Jan 2021 4:14 AM IST

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Ranjona Banerji | How I tweeted away my pandemic summer

I say this to sound like I have an all-round life, but I mean Twitter

21 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

VP Menon: The Unsung Architect of Moder

BOOK REVIEW | A whitewashed portrait shorn of biases, insights

For this reviewer, the fact that a book has been written about V.P. Menon is insufficient.

3 Nov 2020 1:47 AM IST

Exquisite Cadavers By Meena Kandasamy Westland, Rs 399

Exquisite dance of narratives, continents, identities

The skill is not just in the words or the device, it is also in the telling.

9 Feb 2020 8:23 AM IST

White by Brett Easton Ellis Knopf, Rs 799.

Ruminations on echo chambers and writing

By extension possibly, those who are deeply connected to the world of movies, wherever they may live.

8 Dec 2019 3:20 AM IST

Swerving to Solitude: Letters to Mama by Keki N. Daruwalla Simon and Schuster India, Rs 499.

Emergency, scrutinised through the female gaze

It is too easy to just set it in the Emergency or in India and the world of the 1970s.

15 Sept 2019 1:32 AM IST