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

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

The fate of butterflies, By Nayantara Sahgal Speaking Tiger, Rs 450.

Fear, humour mix in sadly prescient saga of our times

Not just a love between people but a love for an idea that is right, that is humane, that is a counter to hate, anger...

23 Jun 2019 7:16 AM IST

The Verdict: Decoding Indias Elections By Prannoy Roy & Dorab R. Sopariwala Penguin India, Rs 599

The method in India's election madness

The Verdict is about the process of understanding the process. It's not just about forecasting but also about the why...

28 April 2019 5:18 AM IST

Insider Outsider: Belonging and Unbelonging in North East India Edited by Preeti Gill & Samrat Choudhary Amaryllis, Rs 399

Otherness and unbelonging in the Northeast

The focus of the Partition of India has for too long been on the line drawn on India's western border, through Punjab.

31 March 2019 4:43 AM IST