India both actually has collective amnesia, or simply pretends to have it. Which is why the heckling of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge in Rajya Sabha for wearing an expensive Louis Vuitton scarf not solely comes throughout as facile however betrays a wilful ignorance of comparative contexts. Why does the ruling …

They were not quite the triumvirate of RRR, being feted for capturing the cinematic imagination of the West with their over-the-top gigantism. Yet they were a threesome in their own right, these women in bindis, who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the men, but in complete contrast to the latter’s crafted superheroism, …