It’s a dreadful pity when a beautifully spacious generalisation is upset by one or two simple facts. — Neville Cardus The doyen of Indian anthropology M. N. Srivinas said that an anthropologist is born thrice. He is ‘once-born’ when he initially goes to the field, away from his familiar surroundings to put himself in a …
From : Back page of ‘Bombay Pentangular’, S. K. Roy (1945) featuring C. K. Rayudu – India’s first great cricketer. Major C.K. Nayudu, once again, as on the first day of the match, was the idol of the huge crowd. Whether ‘C.K.’ played a ball, sent down a delivery or did some fielding, everything was …
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The ingredients of the average Hindi films are well known; color (Eastman preferred); songs (six or seven) in voices one knows and trusts; dance – solo and ensemble – the more frenzied the better; bad girl, good girl, bad guys, goody guys, romance (but no kisses); tears, guffaws, fights, chases, melodrama; characters who exist in …
Following table is an outcome of notes taken for sole purpose of generalising Left and Right politics. Left politics is usually confused with ideology of some political parties. Such views of politics in popular media are confusing if not contradictory. The distinction made between Left and Right was of French origin where the Left is …