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Showing posts with label anthropology (sort of). Show all posts
Showing posts with label anthropology (sort of). Show all posts
28 June 2021

Saving the tiger and wildlife will take more than a few Shernis

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My TOI Plus column: The man-animal conflict in India is a complex, burgeoning problem, and one that is left unaddressed both by our national...
5 April 2021

Book Review: What would human history look like if told through our relationships with animals?

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Simon Barnes’s ‘The History of the World in 100 Animals’ is a unique way of looking back – and around. If you have the slightest curiosity...
29 March 2021

The freedom of the spirit, dead or alive

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My Mumbai Mirror column: An unexpected death opens up surprising new directions for life in Umesh Bist's deftly-balanced new film. Umesh...
14 March 2021

Filming the forest and why our relationship with it is complicated

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My Mirror column: The jungle still sustains millions in India. What does indie cinema make of the conflict that takes place when modernity v...
22 February 2021

An India viewed through French eyes

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My Mumbai Mirror column: For screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, who died on February 8, adapting the Mahabharata was both a way to enter Ind...
7 January 2021

Book Review: Desire and Despoliation

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A book review for Firstpost : A recent English translation brings Shivani's 1978 novel 'Bhairavi' to new readers ...
23 November 2020

In Vino Veritas -- II

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My Mirror column: In Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's An Off-Day Game (2015), a drunken day unmasks a society intoxicated with its own sense of...
19 October 2020

How to treat a doctor

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My Mirror column:  As part of the ongoing series about doctors in our cinema, a look at humanitarianism and humility in Hrishikesh Mukherje...
6 October 2020

Out of syllabus

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My Mirror column, the second in a series on films about doctors: Ek Doctor Ki Maut 's questions about the life of science seem even more...
20 September 2020

Shelf Life -- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Measuring Civilisation

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Shelf Life is a monthly column I write on clothes in books. In RL Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Alberto Manguel's Stevenson Un...
5 September 2020

Shelf Life: Run of the Mill

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The July edition of my 'Shelf Life' column on clothes viewed through the prism of literature, for the website ' The Voice of Fa...

The faults in our stars - I

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My Mumbai Mirror column: the first of a two-part column . What can Indian Matchmaking -- and other recent takes on the arranging of marriag...