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Palash Krishna Mehrotra
About the AuthorPalash Krishna Mehrotra
The writer is the author of The Butterfly Generation and the editor of House Spirit: Drinking in India
    Cover page of Historys AngelLifestyle
    Book Review | A beautiful slow-burn novel sums up the Indian Muslim's...

    No, it's a Muslim Delhi novel. It's an almost-historical novel. It's a contemporary novel

    13 Jan 2024 12:59 PM IST

    Fairytale of New York†is a Christmas classic that many music aficionados will turn to this year not least because it is by Shane MacGowan (above), the Irish singer-songwriter who died on November 30 this year. (Image by Arrangement)Opinion
    Palash Krishna Mehrotra | Fairytales of Christmas

    Memories are not Googleable. What one remembers is both accurate and approximate, a blend of fact and fiction, triple...

    24 Dec 2023 12:01 AM IST

    Cover photo of Another Sort of Freedom: A Memoir by Gurcharan Das. (Image by Arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | A memoir, journal or laundry list? Or man gargling in...

    Gurcharan Das started out life as Ashok Kumar. His parents belonged to the Radha Soami sect. A “saint” at...

    18 Nov 2023 11:23 PM IST

    Palash Krishna Mehrotra | The unlikely uses of a noisy mixer-grinderOpinion
    Palash Krishna Mehrotra | The unlikely uses of a noisy mixer-grinder

    It’s a question that’s kept me awake several nights: Why do mixer-grinders make so much noise? We live in an...

    28 Oct 2023 11:52 PM IST

    GoAir has joined IndiGo, Air India and SpiceJet in banning Kunal Kamra for roasting a TV anchor Arnab Goswami on flight.Opinion
    A gun and a jet plane: The story of two face-offs

    Goswami, minus the fortification of his studio, reminded me of a tyrannical schoolmaster, found strolling in the local...

    5 Feb 2020 2:48 AM IST

    Ekta Kapoor has long argued that her wildly popular soaps are not fantasy but reality with the odd cobra thrown in.Opinion
    The Indian dictionary of acceptable phrases

    We have reached the stage in our democracy where a lamp is called a chair, a stool a shirt and a tubelight the sun.

    10 Jan 2020 12:57 AM IST

    The message the government has sent out is of the iron hand. (Photo: Asian Age)Opinion
    India burns: Can’t stop this thing we started

    The police was clearly told to respond to peace with violence; the enemy had to be crushed.

    24 Dec 2019 4:22 AM IST

    The Juvenile Immigrant Indian Stories from America By Namrata Verghese Speaking Tiger, Rs 399Lifestyle
    Book review: Deft and stylish debut explores the Malayali American

    Occasionally, Verghese lapses into cliché, the writing can come across as uneven and hurried.

    15 Dec 2019 6:03 AM IST

    But for Elton, the piano player, hed found his idols in Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis: They played with such aggression, like they were assaulting the keyboard. It was the way they stood up while they played, the way they kicked the stool and jumped on the piano. They made playing the piano as visually exciting and sexy as playing the guitar or being a vocalist. Id never realised it could be any of those things before. (Photo: Youtube Screengrab)Lifestyle
    The evolution of Elton John, with his music, drugs, family

    Rock ‘n’ roll arrived as the great disruptor of the times, so loud and raucous it was “a bomb that wouldn-'t stop...

    17 Nov 2019 2:47 AM IST

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