Thought Box

‘Hot to Trot’: A Glance into the World of Same-Sex Ballroom Dance

Same-sex social dancing has been around for at least the time that there have been gay clubs. The difference now, according to Ingu Yun, founder of the 20-year-old Sundance Sa...

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Shades of Saffron in Good Faith

Saba Naqvi, an accomplished and admired journalist in India, has always fascinated me. I’ve been watching her on prime-time television debates for sometime now and have ...

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Day of the Courtesan

The mermaid has been creature of fairytales and romances; but what if the half-fish-half-woman is really a malevolent force? Imogen Hermes Gowar’s historical novel with...

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Bill Gates: Tools used to measure Intangible Assets are behind Times

In a blog post published on Tuesday, Bill Gates showed a graph with the basic relationship between supply and demand that he first came across in an introductory economics cou...

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Aleister Crowley: The Famous and Mystical Poet, Mountaineer and Writer

The son of a devout Christian couple, Edward Alexander Crowley, who was once called “the wickedest man in the world” by the British Press, was born in Leamington S...

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The Alchemy of Fear, Superstition and why India should be led by a Coalition Government?

The Modi-led BJP came to power in 2014, after three decades that any political party of India got a majority in the Lok Sabha. It was last in 1984, that Rajiv Gandhi’s C...

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A Classic Farce

It was the genius of Dario Fo that he could convert a grim tragedy into a farce that makes the audience laugh and feel uneasy at the same time. Even though he was telling stor...

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Indian Truck Art travels to England

While keeping an eye on the scenic beauty that surrounds you while driving on a highway, truck art is also something to look out for. Even if not familiar with the term, truck...

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Many Shades of Feminism

In Meg Wolitzer’s novel, The Female Persuasion, a character called Faith Frank, a second wave feminist, gives a speech to students at which she says, “Wh...

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India’s Foreign Policy lacks substantial gains; requires Reprioritization

When historians look back at this time they will say that India was at the cusp of greatness. A high demographic potential, a robust economy, a strong military and world respe...

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BOLLYWOOD: WHEN THE STAR MEETS A MEMORY

This one revisits Shah Rukh Khan’s early days through Monojit Lahiri’s recol...

November 5 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: WHEN PHANTOM INDIA WAS GHOSTED

Khalid Mohamed assesses the now accessible 1969 documentary, Phantom India, helmed by th...

November 4 2025

TV: WHEN FRAGRANCE BECAME THE TEACHER

In its first edition, Surabhi Diaries by Suhail Tatari revisits the beloved 1990s TV phe...

November 2 2025