Sukumar Muralidharan

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Oishik Sircar |Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vaishna Roy |Sukumar Muralidharan

Cinema as a popular art form may have a relationship with the law that is not obvious. Like justice is the ostensible aim of the law, cinema as an aesthetic form has a bias towards seeing the triumph of right over wrong. When contemporary events are the subject matter of cinema, the aesthetics of realism may be superseded by the craving of the human mind for a narrative that bends towards justice.

Sep 4, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Ruchir Sharma |Sukumar Muralidharan |Vaishna Roy |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

The title of Ruchir Sharma’s book seems to indicate that there was a time when all was right with capitalism, or at least most things were. He scotched that expectation in an early chapter, which declares that “there was no golden age”. In popular perception, the US is the home of capitalism, the acme of its perfection. In Sharma’s telling, the US is a case study of all that is wrong. So where in the wide geography of the globe do we have capitalism going the right way?

May 25, 2024 | thesouthfirst.com | Sukumar Muralidharan

The tone of campaign rhetoric as the Lok Sabha election heads into its final phase may identify three phases. All three may be associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s changing moods as he seeks a third term in office. In the first phase, there was an appeal to the general good and a projection of Modi’s unique capacity to fulfil this objective. The subtext was that only people of the Hindu faith mattered, and yet, this was the benign phase.

Feb 13, 2024 | thewire.in | Sukumar Muralidharan

This is the first article in a two-part series. Four months into bombing most of Gaza to rubble, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israel Defence Force (IDF) to plan for the evacuation of Rafah, a southern Gaza town bordering Egypt. was within reach, and this required Israel to confront the last few fighting units of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, purportedly sheltering in Rafah.

Dec 21, 2023 | thewire.in | Sukumar Muralidharan

This is the second article in a two-part series. Read part one here. The Geneva Conventions which lay down the laws of war have a long history, but their most recent incarnations date from the years after World War II. Three existing conventions were updated to stipulate the minimal standards applicable to the treatment of prisoners of war, and the protection of medical sites during times of conflict.