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Aug 9, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Shylashri Shankar
FOOD CAN SET YOU FREE—AND CAGE YOUFood can be the source of great pleasure— and trap you in great painFood can free you from your passions—and make you more ferociousFood can help you explore who you are—and make you intolerant of those unlike yourselfWhat you choose to eat can forge you into a revolutionary, set you free. During the freedom struggle, food became a tool to fashion revolutionaries.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
t.ly | Shylashri Shankar
FOOD CAN SET YOU FREE—AND CAGE YOUFood can be the source of great pleasure— and trap you in great painFood can free you from your passions—and make you more ferociousFood can help you explore who you are—and make you intolerant of those unlike yourselfWhat you choose to eat can forge you into a revolutionary, set you free. During the freedom struggle, food became a tool to fashion revolutionaries.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Shylashri Shankar
What’s in a name? What’s in a brand? All these can just disappear. As time goes by, all these can fall by the wayside. How else can one view the happenings in the corporate world of Tamil Nadu? In the early 90s, one of the brightest jewels of the Chennai industrial world — Enfield – changed hands. Promoted by S Viswanathan and his family, Bullet-maker Enfield was sold to the Eicher group. Viswanathan & his ilk had to give up Enfield due to a combination of issues including scalability.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Shylashri Shankar |Kaveree Bamzai
EVERY TIME I post something on X about Masoom, I get swamped by messages,” says Shekhar Kapur. The 1983 movie, written by poet Gulzar, starring Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi, was a critical and commercial success. The grace with which it handled adultery, the life of a child out of wedlock, and the wife who must accept her husband’s love child was affecting. “The story was so emotional,” says Kapur, “that people have wanted me to make a sequel for the longest time.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Shylashri Shankar |Siddharth Singh
IN A FAR-REACHING decision last week, the Supreme Court held that states have the power to tax mineral rights under the Constitution. With the judgment, the court has overturned the settled law that has been in place since 1990 when it had decided that the right to tax mineral rights rested with the Centre. This is a major upheaval in the federal distribution of rights to tax minerals, something that had been settled by law as far back as 1957.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Shylashri Shankar
A TALENT FOR MURDER | Peter Swanson | Faber & Faber | 72 pages | ₹1,392 This one is a take on Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley. Martha is a librarian newly married to Travis, a travelling salesman. But she feels she does not know him well when one day from her bedroom window she sees him return, and as he gets out of the car, she catches a cold ruthless look on his face and then a careful smile he practices before entering the house.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Shylashri Shankar |Madhavankutty Pillai
THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS and Space Administration (NASA) of the US is seen as the institution at the forefront of space exploration in the world. But, in recent times, the biggest advance when it comes to space has been made by a private company, SpaceX, led by its maverick founder Elon Musk. It revolutionised the idea of the spacecraft, making them reusable. They could go up, do the mission and then come down and land to get outfitted for another mission, just like aeroplanes.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Shylashri Shankar |Kaveree Bamzai
Cinema | Stargazer He’s stayed away from the temptations of Bollywood by not getting typecast How did a boy from Baramulla, Kashmir, become the thinking woman’s pin-up after essaying the role of a pleasure artist in Netflix’s Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper? Well, the boy Manav Kaul saw Habib Tanvir’s adaptation of Mudrarakshas and realised this was what he wanted to do. He moved to Hoshangabad, then Bhopal, where he did theatre with Alok Chatterjee. He then moved to Mumbai in 1998 where Satyadev...
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Shylashri Shankar |Boria Majumdar
I am writing this piece on Monday evening, July 29, when both the women’s and men’s archery teams have been eliminated with poor quarter-final showings. After an excellent ranking round where the men finished third and the women fourth on July 25, much was expected from both teams. Many including me had counted a medal for the men’s team, coming at the back of the Asian Games silver last October in Hangzhou. Make no mistake, the performance was below par here in Paris.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Shylashri Shankar |Madhulika Liddle
IN 1905, WHEN the British partitioned Bengal, the nephew of Rabindranath Tagore, painter and writer Abanindranath Tagore, created a painting inspired by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s famous patriotic novel Anandmath. Bharat Mata, depicted as a serene-faced woman clad in saffron, holds in her four hands a sheaf of paddy, a rosary, a book and a piece of cloth. Bharat Mata soon became a potent symbol of nationalism, a rallying point for freedom fighters around the country.
