Prathyush Parasuraman

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Prathyush Parasuraman |Vaishna Roy

To call a film “brave” is a fragile compliment, because it is not as much about the film itself as about the context in which the film was made and released—“hand on the primal bone/… taking the word from the stream/ Fighting the sand for speech, fighting the stone”, as the poet Dom Moraes said. To call a film “brave” is to demand a society where such words need not be used—the act of this film being exceptional is in the hope that one day such films might be unexceptional.

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Prathyush Parasuraman |Vaishna Roy

Self-evident as it may sound, the world only exists because it is experienced, not because it is. How one experiences it, over time, becomes how it is. We spend lives trying to exchange notes, to see where our experiences cohere, and where we can comfortably plant the flag of “fact”, but the land beneath our feet keeps shifting.

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Vivek Katju |Saba Naqvi |Prathyush Parasuraman |Vaishna Roy

EntitlementRumaan AlamBloomsbury IndiaRs. 799True to the title, the novel is an exploration of the lives of the world’s richest one per cent. Described as “an engrossing and resonant tale of money, morality and madness”. ___A Pulp Fiction TextbookV.M. DevadasHachette IndiaRs.399A book about a series of gruesome deaths, the inventive book plants clues and reveals the killer through exercises, drawings, and questionnaires.

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Vivek Katju |Saba Naqvi |Prathyush Parasuraman |Vaishna Roy

The Telangana government’s landmark caste survey has rekindled a discourse on social justice measures and reservation while simultaneously triggering intense political fights over who truly represents the interests of the backward classes (BC) in the State. The Telangana Congress currently enjoys an edge as, on March 6, its Cabinet cleared draft Bills to enhance reservation for the BCs in education, employment, and politics on the basis of data obtained from the recently conducted caste survey.

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Prathyush Parasuraman |Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy

You are angry because you are afraid, a character tells Dev, the feral hero (or perhaps, anti-hero) of Deva. This psychoanalytic diagnosis is both chilling and clear, going to the root of why men on screen today peddle this Viagra of the heart.