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Manu Joseph

Articles by Manu Joseph

Manu Joseph’s Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous: Read an excerpt

Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous is Manu Joseph’s third novel.

Updated on Sep 17, 2017 04:39 IST

Why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already won the demonetisation gambit

A long queue in front of Syndicate Bank near ITO, New Delhi, India, November 15, 2016

Updated on Nov 17, 2016 19:22 IST

There’s a serious problem with modern democracy, but what is the alternative?

Protesters in downtown Pretoria, South Africa, November 2. Thousands of South Africans are demonstrating for the resignation of President Jacob Zuma, who has been enmeshed in scandals that critics say are undermining the country's democracy.

Updated on Nov 10, 2016 02:07 IST

Nationalism will improve air quality

Office goes rushing to office while a blanket of haze and smog enveloped Delhi, October 31.

Updated on Nov 2, 2016 16:01 IST

By ‘negotiating’ with Raj Thackeray, the BJP government has diminished itself

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena workers stage a demonstration against Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Nagpur, October 20

Updated on Oct 27, 2016 07:58 IST

It’s a good thing that Bollywood is in a crisis

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Updated on Sep 22, 2016 01:39 IST

Why it is good that Bollywood is having a crisis

A symptom of the crisis in Bollywood is the recent announcement of the Walt Disney Company, which had acquired and released the disastrous Hrithink Roshan-starrer “Mohenjo Daro”, that it is quitting Hindi cinema and focusing on its more profitable Hollywood releases

Updated on Sep 21, 2016 19:31 IST

Why we forgive the rogue neta

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Updated on Sep 12, 2016 03:23 IST

Why the Indian voter does not punish the rogue

A convincing reason why Anna Hazare would lose an election is that the typical voter does not perceive him as a street-smart man who can beat the system. Arvind Kejriwal, on the other hand, has successfully portrayed himself as a shrewd man.

Updated on Sep 11, 2016 17:11 IST

A madness that pulls us down

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Updated on Aug 29, 2016 06:26 IST

Man carrying his dead wife: What this says about India

The man and his daughter had walked about 12 kilometres this way when some journalists spotted him and saw news.

Updated on Aug 28, 2016 17:45 IST

Thank you very much, but don’t die for us

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Updated on Aug 16, 2016 05:33 IST

Do we have moral right to use a person’s suicide to flog our favourite ideas?

Irom Sharmila breaks her fast at a press conference in Imphal.

Updated on Aug 15, 2016 18:57 IST

India should not even try to host the Olympics

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Updated on Aug 8, 2016 02:21 IST

Why Indians should not let the Olympics make them feel bad

Fireworks over the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on the opening night of the 2016 Olympic Games on Friday.

Updated on Aug 8, 2016 01:45 IST

Shhh. Does this issue bore you?

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Updated on Jul 26, 2016 05:48 IST

If Dalits bore you, are you a bad person?

Balubhai, father of one of the Dalit victims who was brutally assaulted by self-styled 'cow protectors' in Una, Gujarat.

Updated on Jul 26, 2016 02:29 IST

One tough question: Whom do you trust?

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Updated on Jul 18, 2016 03:02 IST

An unpleasant question: Do Kashmir’s poor hate their elite more than India?

A Kashmiri woman looks out from a window of her home during a curfew, Srinagar, July 12.

Updated on Jul 19, 2016 04:28 IST

Revenge of the nerds

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Updated on Jul 12, 2016 02:00 IST

Nobel laureates’ letter on GM crops punches hole in Greenpeace propaganda

Activists who have successfully vilified a science are indeed responsible for the malnutrition of millions and the worsening poverty of a majority of world’s farmers, who are small land-holders and would have benefitted from biotechnology.

Updated on Jul 11, 2016 17:34 IST

Some indecent questions

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Updated on Jun 27, 2016 02:57 IST

Some indecent questions in genetics

The reader naturally feels that Siddhartha Mukherjee is about to take a clear stand — favouring genes, perhaps, because his book is called The Gene. But he does not. He ends up suggesting “an armistice between fools”.

Updated on Jun 26, 2016 18:21 IST

Udta Punjab: Nothing reforms society as entertainment

Updated on Jun 20, 2016 03:11 IST

An absolutely deadly freedom

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Updated on Jun 13, 2016 24:13 IST

An absolutely deadly freedom

Over 146,000 Indians died in road accidents last year, or over 400 a day, according to the latest statistics of the transport ministry. The actual number might be much more

Updated on Jun 12, 2016 17:24 IST

Fighting Facebook as a form of faith

Recently Facebook faced a Quit India movement after it released a version of the Internet, a scaled-down free Internet for the poor called Free Basics.

Updated on May 15, 2016 19:50 IST

How to view the bribe-taking voter in India

AIADMK chief and Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa speaks during an election campaign meeting in support of party candidates in Madurai.

Updated on May 8, 2016 16:27 IST

Why we Indians should tip more

In restaurants where the idea of tipping is deeply set, Indians give grudgingly and poorly when service charge is not included in the bill

Updated on May 2, 2016 07:37 IST

Ambedkar as career advice: Forget the ladder, make your own way

The Dalit Prerna Sthal in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

Updated on Apr 14, 2017 07:55 IST

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