Aditya Mukherjee

The writer is an independent journalist based in Delhi

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Why Kapil Sharma matters in these uncertain times

In a recent episode of Kapil Sharma Show, a visibly amused Anupam Kher asked Kapil Sharma, “How do you manage to come up with such rib-tickling one-liners at the drop of a hat,”? The effervescent...

Has Virat Kohli dropped the ball?

After India’s defeat in the just-concluded Edgbaston Test, now people, as well as critics, have begun to ask: Has the 34-year-old former Indian captain Virat Kohli become a liability to the team? What was sacrilegious...

Women’s cricket in India set for a long innings

A chocolate ad on TV has become extremely popular among viewers and is grabbing eyeballs. It shows one of the male cricket fans in the stadium rooting for the Indian women's team and leaping for...

Are India’s godmen leading us up the garden path?

The recent arrest of a self-styled godman Siva Shankar Baba from Tamil Nadu for sexually abusing young girls has once again exposed the murky world of fake godmen who have become a law unto themselves....

For these legends, age is just a number

Old age was an indecent state that had to be ended before it was too late…at eighty-one years of age, Dr Urbino had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by...

When a genius thrives in isolation

What happens when a happily married middle-aged man decides to abandon his family and pursue his passion to become a painter? In W. Somerset Maugham’s famous novel, The Moon and Sixpence, the central protagonist, forty-year-old...

Around the country on a bike

For some, life begins after retirement. There is even a desire to live life dangerously by throwing oneself out of one’s comfort zone. It is rightly said that to have an adventure, one must break...

Rishi Kapoor will always remain a romantic hero

Barely had the nation come to terms with the news of Irrfan’s untimely death when the devastating news of Rishi Kapoor’s sudden demise, in the morning of April 30, shook the film world and the...

Irrfan Khan believed in talent than mere looks

In the Eighties, when Irrfan was a teenager, people used to say he looked like the spitting image of the then Bollywood star Mithun Chakraborty. This young lad would take it as a compliment. In...

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Farmers protest: Growing solidarity in Kolkata and districts before parallel Republic Day Parade

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The real PadMan– Story of the real superhero of every woman

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Lok Sabha polls will be like that of 1977 – India voting against the dictatorship of Indira Gandhi, says Dipankar Bhattacharya

Bagodar/Giridih: The All India General Secretary of Communist Party of India- Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML), Dipankar Bhattacharya, while addressing the humongous crowd assembled at Bagodar...

Dilip Kumar’s Excellent Offbeat Movies

Dilip Kumar always said, “A memorable film may not always be popular. A popular film is not always memorable.” According to his statement, a...