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Mitali Saran: From the rib of nationalism

Monsters tend to outgrow their leashes

Mitali Saran: Ending 2015 on a good note

Musicians are the best people; hanging around them can be exhilarating or exasperating, but it's never boring

Mitali Saran: New year, new direction?

It's time for the Congress to reinvent itself

Mitali Saran: Air today, gone tomorrow

In which the odds are even that Delhi will cooperate

Mitali Saran: An intolerable debate

A beginner's guide to tolerating tolerant intolerance

Mitali Saran: Incredible Indiahahahahaha

The BJP is transforming India into an absurdist wonderland

Mitali Saran: Spectre raj

We need to put an adult in charge of the CBFC

Mitali Saran: Polls, trolls, and festival goals

The Bihar election result was that I discovered my inner troll

Mitali Saran: Uma Bharti and the divine water isotopes

Scientists are going to use water isotopes tracer technology to see if the Ganga can in any way be connected to Mansarovar

Mitali Saran: If you're upset, Mr Prime Minister, don't bottle it up

A strong leader, known for his strong speeches, uses his communication skills to guide and heal. He does not wait for 10 days to comment, provoking a worried President to speak instead-not once, but t

Mitali Saran: Bringing India to book

We have to decide whether we're going to nurture freedom and art, or ban them bit by bit

Mitali Saran: Cowboys and Indians - a short clip

There may always be unbridgeable belief gaps, but there will also always be the common belief that this is a country worth fighting about

I'll have the holy cow, medium-rare

Present-day India is the sort of ancient, proud, powerhouse society that could break down your door and kill you because it doesn't like the sound of your dinner

Mitali Saran: Talking turkey, or why communication is tricky business

The call and response of communication assures you that you have been acknowledged and reacted to, but talking constructively is the most difficult thing in the world

Mitali Saran: If you want to be in a relationship, do it before you turn 40

After 40, getting into a romance is like batting your eyelashes at an approaching SUV before throwing yourself under its wheels

Mitali Saran: We don't need no education

The Modi government's most cherished goal is a Hindu supremacist socio-cultural order, but its good-old-days instincts are dated

Shooting for the moon

Ambition: damned if you do, damned if you don't

Mitali Saran: A mother's love

To pretend that parents don't have doubts, face negative feelings about their kids undermines the struggle they go through

Political superbug

The only thing worse than ISIS doing its thing in India, is not-ISIS doing the same thing in India. If the former is like a vicious infection, the latter is an autoimmune disease

Mitali Saran: Independence Day reminder

This is just a brief reminder, dear fellow citizens, that none of us needs permission or sanction to be Indian, in whatever way we choose, as long as it doesn't break the law