Three Khans
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Threads, Carpets, and PM Modi’s 75th
X.T.M reflects on celebrity birthday messages for Narendra Modi’s 75th, reads the Khans’ contrasting Hindu cultural idioms, and describes his work on Hindu sacred art, carpets and Ardhanarishvara iconography. He…
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Book Review: Shrayana Bhattacharya’s Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh-India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence.
Maneesh Taneja reviews Shrayana Bhattacharya’s Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh, which uses the film star’s fandom to tell the stories of lonely young Indian women with limited income and agency. He…
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Self-respect starts at home, Mr Kohli..
Seeing a Virat Kohli advertisement, the author argues celebrities need taste to build Brownitude’s international reputation, then questions Shah Rukh Khan’s remark that hundreds of religions coexist in India, noting…
