under Kalpish Ratna

Cry Rape and Be Noticed

How the Delhi rape has wrought a prurient me-too madness in the media and the average citizen

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21 Jan 2013 | BY Kalpish Ratna
The Last Free Lunch

The only way to evade diabetes is to stop evading responsibility for what we eat

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14 Jan 2013 | BY Kalpish Ratna
Notes to Ourselves

What must we do to survive the persistent onslaught of dengue, malaria, chikungunya, swine flu…?

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19 Dec 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna
Sheep in Wolf Attire

Naomi Wolf’s new book on the vagina is as misogynistic as they come

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3 Oct 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna
The Puzzle of Gilbert Hill

Signs of the Continental Drift are still visible in this densely populated part of Mumbai

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17 May 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna
Mama Em’s Cope Book

In literature focused on insanity, the gaze seems to have shifted from the insane. The patient is no longer the victim; that status now belongs to the caregiver

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8 May 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna
Finding Fact in Fiction

Real life intrudes on fiction all the time. Kalpish Ratna indulge in some literary detection as they search for clues to the true character of Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes’ life and movements

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25 Mar 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna
You Might Be Dangerous

Shoot on sight, and don’t think twice. That seems to be the credo of the Italians on board the Enrica Lexie, unchanged since the European intrusion into our waters in 1498

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2 Mar 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna
Mimics and Models

Whatever Jane Austen might think, PD James’ Death Comes to Pemberley ranks among the finest examples of literary mimicry, a genre that has good reason to exist

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23 Feb 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna
Good for the Sole

The abject surrender of medical intelligence in the age of gadgetry

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17 Feb 2012 | BY Kalpish Ratna
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