The notion of ‘badla’, or revenge, has always had a special place in the Indian imagination: Remember all those Hindi films that centred around the idea of vengeance or settling scores.
“You people don’t care about us in South India, we don’t exist for you,” says a young man, angrily accosting me as we attempt a whistle-stop visit of Chennai’s flood-hit areas.
In his autobiography, the original Hindi film superstar Dilip Kumar writes of how he got his screen name. It was the Bombay Talkies owner Devika Rani who told him, “Yousuf, I was thinking about your launch as an actor and I felt it would not be a bad idea if you adopted a screen name.
In his autobiography, the original Hindi film superstar Dilip Kumar writes of how he got…
The former British prime minister Harold Wilson once said a week is along time in politics. He was probably wrong.: In India, a weekend is enough as I have realized yet again.
In 2012, we did a television show to identify the greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi (post 1947). The winner by some distance was Babasaheb Ambedkar; Jawaharlal Nehru just about made it to the top 10.
In 2012, we did a television show to identify the greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi…
