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Artistic independence in an age of allegiance

In the past few days, the media has been awash with reels and posts of a tear-brimmed Bengali actor-director declaring in a public meeting that he had been compelled to compromise his artistic and cultural convictions for the sake of his family.

Biting the hand that feeds

Last week I had written about the gradual dwindling of journalistic credibility in media today. Expectedly, I received a number of reactions from readers, friends and family which ranged from appreciation….mostly from old timers who associate journalism with unequivocal non-conformism….to exclamations of outright incredulity

Burning bright

Hungarian anthropologist Karl Polanyi says that there are certain critical periods of history when time expands. In recent years, time has expanded in Spanish politics.