In Germany and France, carbon pricing disproportionately affects low-income households compared to their wealthier counterparts. This disparity arises because products and services commonly consumed by wealthier individuals, like imported goods and travel outside the EU, are exempt from carbon pricing.… Continue reading →

By Jeeva P It still amazes me why I was a Dad-kanni (I hate to use today’s internet lingo, but I keep doing it!) – someone who follows his dad a tad too much, observes what he observes, approves what he approves, rejects what he rejects and so on – even after reaching adulthood (But […]

The Economist had a short article on their correspondent getting a haircut in Dakar Senegal. Prices for a haircut in the low income countries should be a lot cheaper when compared to the developed world as a lot depends on… Continue reading →

By Latha Rajasekar An intelligent plot-driven cop tale, that gradually transforms character-driven, engulfing the viewers through its gripping narrative and mindful acting. A novel premise, ironically feels very familiar, as it is tightly packed with acquainted sub plots from our everyday news-paper articles. But the screenplay effortlessly transcends the film to newer heights, as the […]

An article in the June Finance and Development magazine from the IMF addressed the path to prosperity for economies and if the focus should be on competitiveness or productivity. The concept of competitiveness has been misunderstood particularly in the context… Continue reading →

It’s a great idea to examine what a child means to its parents, and to shape this dramatic idea into an investigative thriller. But the result doesn’t add up. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Nelson Venkatesan’s new film, DNA, is a sort of extension of his wonderful debut feature, Oru Naal Koothu. […]

The story is about an evil, rich man who recruits a beggar for a job, and the film wants to be a fable with a moral about haves and have-nots. But the themes and ideas don’t fit in easily, and the film ends up occasionally engaging at best. The rest of this review may contain […]

Aamir Khan plays a basketball coach who is asked to train a team of special-needs people. Everything is very broad and generic, but the feel-good factor holds it all together. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. In RS Prasanna’s Sitaare Zameen Par, Aamir Khan plays a man-child named Gulshan. If you’ve seen the […]

By Srinath Lalgudi As I thought about headline options for this piece, I went through the myriad thoughts & emotions this movie created in me and the one word that stood out again and again was – ‘Unearned’. Starting from what this movie wanted to make the audience feel and ending with the deluge of […]

The story gets going when a baby gets “stolen”, but along with the investigative thriller, we get a superb micro-portrait of the rich and the poor. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Karan Tejpal’s Stolen dives into its premise and its themes right from Scene One. The premise is spelt out in the […]

By Pranav Jain Pranav Jain is an incoming civil servant and also a columnist. “Yeh Dilli hai mere yaar, bas ishq, mohabbat, pyaar”. This is not merely a lyric from Rakeysh Mehra’s Delhi-6, but a declaration. Delhi does not ask to be loved, it assumes it will be. There is, simply, no city quite like […]

Celine Song seems to have wanted to move away from Past Lives. Her new film is more mainstream and (thankfully) more messy, both in terms of structure and in terms of what it talks about. I wasn’t as wowed by Past Lives the way many of my friends were. I found it too neat, too […]