Palash Krishna Mehrotra
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New Delhi, DL, India
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Past articles by Palash:
What’s new in New Education Policy
To school we must go, even as internationally there is a rising trend of parents going in for home schooling. → Read More
Why the Congress is on auto-pilot mode
Think of the Congress as a rusty swimmer with a heavy body, palms swatting the water rather than splicing through it with finesse. → Read More
How Covid has caused the crisis of existence
It's difficult to gauge the national mood because we Indians are great ones for putting up a brave front — one reason why mental health has remained low on our priority list. → Read More
How deaths of Irrfan and Rishi Kapoor affected their fans differently
They were icons for all seasons. → Read More
When liquor ban makes life more difficult during lockdown
There will be further lockdowns as time goes on. A drink will make all of this more tolerable. → Read More
Shot in the arm for women officers
All new ideas have to climb over a barbed wire fence in order to enter the gated compound. → Read More
Veer Savarkar's sunrise moment
There are times one feels closer to Savarkar's ideas than Gandhi's. → Read More
Jhadoo 101 for 'bade log': How to successfully wield a broom for photos
BJP lawmaker from Mathura Hema Malini and Minister of State Anurag Thakur seem to be clueless about the humble jhadoo and are in dire need to learn the technique. → Read More
Understanding the politics behind erecting statues
Can a man be turned into a towering figure by casting him in stone and bronze? → Read More
Guns and the Art of Sanity Maintenance: a few tips to US of A
Given American love for guns, using one is as easy as reciting a nursery rhyme → Read More
Spiritual Samsonite: The unrelenting invention of tradition in India
The innovative, entrepreneurial and creative energies of Indians are channelled into religion → Read More
Why Indians don't stop and ask for directions anymore
I perform the duties of everyman’s general north India compass. → Read More
Dangers of drunk Facebooking: An 9-step survival guide
When your phone connects you to hundreds, you’re dead before you’re born; esp when you are tipsy → Read More
Kaafi Sahi: The republic of slang
While some slang words are appropriated (and sanitised) by English speakers, others are left to fend for themselves in the ghetto. → Read More
Mukkabaaz is Anurag Kashyap at the height of his powers
It’s a film about giving it back. It’s about throwing punches. → Read More
Why a cat story with no cats has become an internet sensation
In many ways, this is a story about the unsaid pressure on women when it comes to the sexual act. → Read More
Life in a small town and big city in India
There is no room for ‘infrastructural complacency’ in smaller places, one always has a plan B. → Read More
How Indians travel says a lot about India
Whatever it is that we might be driving, we always drive to get ahead. → Read More
Netflix documentary on American writer Joan Didion is a must-watch
The film shows she is more than the queen of doom, always looking into the abyss. → Read More
Singing in the dark: Patriotism at the cinema
Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud, who helmed the landmark judgement on Right to Privacy, has recently questioned a 2016 court order making it mandatory for the National Anthem to be played in cinema halls. While questioning the logic behind forcing every Indian to ‘wear his patriotism on his sleeve’, Justice Chandrachud added: "Next thing will be that people should not wear t-shirts… → Read More