By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma नदी की नियति – समंदर में मिलना । लेकिन‌ नदी की हर धारा को ये नियति मंजूर नहीं होती । कुछ धाराएं बाग़ी होती हैं । वो खामोशी के साथ समंदर में अपना वजूद नहीं खोती, बल्कि मौका ढूंढती हैं एक अलग वजूद बनाने का । और जब कभी भौगोलिक परिस्थितियां […]

Double-digit inflation and aggressive tightening by central banks has been the order of the day in the global economy, however consumer spending still remains robust especially in the more elastic (luxury) goods and services market. Events like Beyoncé concert in… Continue reading →

By Jithendar Anandan During my recent flight from Chennai to New York, I stumbled upon a movie that immediately caught my attention – “Kadaisi Vivasayi.” The title and the presence of Vijay Sethupathi intrigued me. The movie’s standout aspect is the remarkable cast and the landscapes they chose to shoot in. It felt like watching […]

Spoilers ahead… The idea that it takes a village to get two underprivileged boys into school could have made for a powerful underdog story. Instead, we are left with something that feels like a fairy tale. Towards the end of Lenin Balakrishnan’s Article 21, Joju George makes a speech. He plays a writer and social […]

Spoilers ahead… The refreshingly unmelodramatic and female-skewing screenplay gives the feel of ‘Little Women’ or ‘Pride and Prejudice’ as rewritten by RK Narayan. Human beings are like fruit, the narrator says. We may think we have free will, but ultimately – like mangoes – we have no control whether we are going to end up […]

Spoilers ahead… In many ways, the film feels like a heartfelt throwback to the heydays of the Chopra-Johar-Barjatya sagas, i.e. the pre-‘Dil Chahta Hai’ era. Note: This film review is based on an almost-complete cut seen on June 6. It had temp music, and post-production was still on. Some of the things I mention here […]

By Karthik Iyer If nothing else, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has changed the way I look at raindrops. There are only two shots of them in the film: one at the beginning and one at the end. Everything that happens in between changed my perspective. Nolan gave Cillain Murphy, who plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, one note about how […]

By Madhumithaa Jai Bhim, Viduthalai, Por Thozhil. This is just a quick list off the top of my head. There are definitely more movies that will effortlessly make it to this list. There’s a disturbing pattern that I notice in these movies, and an even more disturbing pattern with the audience. The disturbing pattern is […]

I came across this novel idea of using photographs to teach cross-country differences in real per-capita GDP in the Journal of Economics Teaching. It draws on over 44,000 internationally comparable photographs (of households and their living conditions). Most courses focus… Continue reading →

By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma Many a times, in his interviews, Imtiaz Ali has shown his reverence and respect for Shyam Benegal’s filmmaking. In fact, at one instance he even moderated a discussion about Benegal’s Junoon. Hence, if one finds impressions of Benegal School of Filming in Ali’s work then it should not a surprise. These […]

Spoilers ahead… He’s an IT professional. She’s a doctor. They’re married, and they have a fantastic, fantasy-prone sex life. Nirmal Joshi’s Goodnight Giggles depicts sex in a way we’ve never seen in an Indian context (though the director is from the US). The act is utterly un-self-conscious — as are the brilliant actors, Chakori Dwivedi […]

In the A Level syllabus FDI is part of Unit 11. One way that developing economies can achieve a rise in investment is to attract multinational companies. A multinational corporation (MNC) is defined as a firm that operates in more… Continue reading →

I have been doing exchange rates with my AS class and we talked about the problems some countries have when they are blessed with natural resources – the resource curse. Africa may have enormous natural reserves of oil, but so… Continue reading →