Sunil Menon

Thakazhi's troubled gaze at '40s India, in a patchy translation

BY Sunil Menon 🃏 5 February 2022

No recordings of his exist, but every classical musician bows to Ustad Alladiya Khan. In plain vanilla format, here's why.

BY Sunil Menon ♍ 5 February 2022

👍What an option it might have been! A Sanskritised landscape! Taporis spouting Kalidasa...LS debates in devabhasha (Krama! Krama! Aham Somanatha Chattopadhyaya vadaami!...)

BY Sunil Menon ♑ 5 February 2022

The '90s in meltdown. Then an apparition in print. The story, from the gut.

BY Sunil Menon ✃ 5 February 2022

Everything, it seems, has a limit. Why does the media start haemorrhaging at the prospect of India's fringe breaking its silence? Are we afraid of our democracy?

BY Sunil Menon ❀ 5 February 2022

⭕The film song is mass hypnotism, an aid to help us forget. But the past never leaves.

BY Sunil Menon ♚ 5 February 2022

🗹Making bold to explore a humbler method to crack the dimly understood laws of international relations. An unofficial oral history of geopolitics.

BY Sunil Menon 🍌 5 February 2022

"Sir, what is the time?" Man 2, glancing at watch, gravely, "It’s too late." Too late for what? "Too late for you and me."

BY Sunil Menon 🦹 5 February 2022

Pakistan’s again at what hacks love to euphemise as an "inflexion point" in its history. Nawaz Sharif is again the paragon of liberty..One feels sorry for Musharraf...

BY Sunil Menon 🦋 5 February 2022

So we don't just live next door to Absurdistan, it's in our marrow. As Advani once said, "Desh ka vayumandal kharab hai". (He wasn't talking carbon emissions.)

BY Sunil Menon 🧔 5 February 2022