HISTORICAL FACTS: 14 - The Untold Story

Can we separate the art from the artist? Sexual abuse allegations against Nagarjun revive the old debate

In a November 2018 piece for New Statesman, writer Eleanor Margolis wondered whether she would read Roald Dahl’s fiction to her children. Dahl, considered one of the most influential children’s fiction writers of the 20th century, had made antisemitic remarks and was seen to have justified the Holocaust. Despite her…

Newslaundry · Jan 18, 2020

How the Hindu man’s crisis of masculinity fuels Hindutva

As I browse my Twitter timeline, surfing through replies by people clearly identifying themselves as staunch Hindus and, more importantly, as Narendra Modi’s supporters, a common theme emerges: among other religious and political iconography, they use as their display pictures the image of an angry Hanuman’s face, bathed in half…

Newslaundry · Jan 14, 2020