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Pattanaik is quick to seize on the ‘Suitable Boy’ kiss: But Khajuraho analogy doesn’t fit

Ashish Shukla - November 24, 2020

Devdutt Pattanaik has again pulled a fast one. His twitter timeline has an image of a sculpture, most likely from Khajuraho, where a kiss...

OTT, news portals, online media now come under I and B ministry

Newsbred Staff - November 11, 2020

The Central government has taken the first big step towards regulation of online content, including news platforms and streaming services, such as Over The...

Google, Facebook face huge tax liability as OECD defers common tax frame

Bhumika Arora - October 14, 2020

After the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) decided to postpone its common tax frame, global digital giants including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and...

Uddhav and his miserable attempt at Arnab the Bull rampaging his china shop

Ashish Shukla - October 9, 2020

Uddhav Thackeray has lost the plot badly. I mean Sonia Gandhi and Sharad Pawar have nothing to lose—their fiefdom would survive only till they...

Indian Matchmaking: Provider yes, but also gigolos & bimbos in the patio please

Veeresh Malik - August 8, 2020

So out of sheer boredom and because a friend from Bollywood asked me to take a look without being pre-biased, I sat through a...

Abusing Hanuman: Where’s the leash to deter the barking Netflix

Ashish Shukla - June 9, 2020

I once heard Salman Rushdie say: “I might be indifferent to religion but if it acts as a balm to billions, who am I...

Paatal Lok: How abusing Hindu gods passed your muster, Ms Anushka

Ashish Shukla - May 22, 2020

I cringed watching Paatal Lok. Kutiya (bitch) is a word used in everyday life for a women of no-character. A bed-hopping adulteress. In the...

Iran feels let down by India and rightly so

Ashish Shukla - September 11, 2019

Iran has shown its hurt on India which has unilaterally stopped the import of its oil, unwilling to stand in the corner of the...

Porn is bigger than Amazon or Netflix and that’s a cause for worry

Ashish Shukla - July 14, 2019

I recently did a piece in praise of India’s new Child Pornography Bill but the issue didn’t leave me and several related issues teased...

Leila: Who would question Prayaag Akbar or Netflix?

Ashish Shukla - June 21, 2019

I expect a political storm over Leila, a six-part TV serial on Netflix, the first season of which went on air last week. The serial...

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