
Amulya Gopalakrishnan
The Indian Express Group
Amulya Gopalakrishnan-

People Unlike Us
Sunday 10 March '13
A book that will change how you think of difference, parenting and commitmentThe Man who Plans Cannes
Monday 18 February '13
Thierry Fremaux on why India is an honoured guest this year at the world''s most prestigious film festivalThe Man who Plans Cannes
Saturday
16 February '13Thierry Fremaux on why India is an honoured guest this year at the world''s most prestigious film festivalThe Man who Plans Cannes
Saturday
16 February '13Thierry Fremaux on why India is an honoured guest this year at the world''s most prestigious film festivalThe zigzag artist
Sunday
10 February '13Atul Dodiya''s free-form creativity forges art from cinema and politics, poetry and history. The artist on his many influences and why he refuses to settle into a style.Dog Days
Sunday
27 January '13Happiness is indeed a warm puppy.The Body Artists
Sunday
6 January '13The problem is not that the item song is sexy, but that it is designed solely to please unimaginative men.Occupy Raisina Hill
Monday
24 December '12The protest against rape is a howl of anguish, not a charter of real demandsOn the road
Sunday
2 December '12As I contemplate moving house and adding an hour-plus to my daily commute, I''ve started noticing traffic very acutely.'Striking the right balance between modernity and heritage is complicated. We try to find the balance''
Sunday
25 November '12Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director General, speaks about conservation in times of globalisation, of freedom of speech and expression and UNESCO''s adjustment in the new world order.Difficult Pleasures
Saturday
3 November '12NW is an impressive formal experiment for Zadie Smith, but less fun than you might expect from her'This East versus West narrative is just a construction of Western elites, a pep talk''
Sunday
26 August '12From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia, Pankaj Mishra''s new book, traces submerged strands of anti-colonial thought in Asia, exploring the intellectual journey...Where the stress falls
Saturday
7 July '12Even in a politically correct world, accents remain the one thing we feel free to mock.The Epistolary Dilemma
Saturday
23 June '12I''ve been reading Philip Larkin''s Letters to Monica, a book I coveted greatly, from reading the reviews.The descendants
Sunday
4 March '12There''s a flip side to "soft" nepotism, you never know the freedom of real self-reliance.Curtains up
Sunday
19 February '12Some people never get over the anxiety of facing an audience.Bare Minimum City
Saturday
18 February '12Katherine Boo takes you into the dreams and schemes, the decencies and selfishness of a Mumbai slumSay You Care
Sunday
25 December '11Why do people buy cards? It's not because they want to say how they feel. People buy cards because they can't say what they feel or are afraid to.Message in a Bottle
Sunday
27 November '11What keeps the prohibitionists going, generation after generation?Something Old, something New
Sunday
30 October '11In this time of gifts, of crackly packaging and new things, I''ve been preoccupied with the old and used.A car of one''s own
Sunday
16 October '11In parts of Saudi Arabia, women have been driven to defiance by a political-religious establishment that forbids them from taking claim of their own cars.Cliches of the Imagination
Saturday
8 October '11David Davidar''s new novel is a decent apologia for the publishing industry, but a failed work of fictionDare to Say 'I Don''t Know''?
Sunday
2 October '11I don''t know" – why does it seem so rare and radical for someone to utter these three little words?Schooled in elitism
Monday
19 September '11Why are otherwise egalitarian people so obsessed with college hierarchy?Work Unsigned
Sunday
11 September '11We have a fairly fixed idea of intellectual property, there''s a gate and a name-plate around your imaginative labour.













