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Girish Shahane

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ARTICLES BY GIRISH SHAHANE

Dev Anand's character tries to moralize a group of stoner hippies, including his sister played by Zeenat Aman, in 'Haré Rama Haré Krishna'.

Opinion | A brief history of getting high in India

5 min read . 01 Oct 2020

When Elon Musk is not brainstorming to save the world, he's being a Twitter troll. (Getty Images)

Opinion | Why Elon Musk is both obnoxious and indispensable

5 min read . 24 Sep 2020

A medical check-up being conducted at a slum in Mumbai on 23 August. 57% slumdwellers, part of a seroprevalence survey in Mumbai, tested positive for antibodies. (Getty Images)

Opinion | Covid-19: Dark clouds and silver linings

5 min read . 17 Sep 2020

An anti-CAA protest by the Pinjra Tod feminist collective on 19 December in Delhi. (Facebook.Com/Pinjratod)

Opinion | Three cheers for high courts

5 min read . 11 Sep 2020

Even the worst of the Lannisters never reneges on a promised monetary reward or reimbursement.

GoT and the GST face-off

5 min read . 04 Sep 2020

Ramesses II, perhaps the most powerful man in 13th century BC, on display at the Cairo Museum. Getty Images

Opinion | Death lessons from a mummy

5 min read . 27 Aug 2020

Aggregators like Swiggy and Zomato are known to have collected data on eating habits to create their own kitchens in direct competition with their restaurant partners. Getty Images

Opinion | Playing monopoly in the digital age

4 min read . 20 Aug 2020

(from left) Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito at the 1956 summit of Non-Aligned Movement at Brioni Island. Getty Images

Opinion | Nationhood at its zenith and nadir

5 min read . 13 Aug 2020

The new policy lays emphasis on teaching in the mother tongue. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

Opinion | The new education policy goes vocal for local

5 min read . 05 Aug 2020

Bruce Lee’s popularity created a worldwide wave of interest in karate in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Getty Images

Opinion | Bruce Lee: man and myth

5 min read . 30 Jul 2020

Lin-Manuel Miranda plays Alexander Hamilton in the musical ‘Hamilton’.

Opinion | What Hamilton reveals about climate change denial

5 min read . 23 Jul 2020

A scene from Werner Herzog’s film, ‘Family Romance, LLC’.

Opinion | Why we can't emulate Japan in our fight against covid-19

5 min read . 16 Jul 2020

The decision to make the Hagia Sophia a mosque once again is entirely symbolic. Photo: AP

Opinion | Why Erdoğan wants to turn Turkey's Hagia Sophia into a mosque

5 min read . 09 Jul 2020

'Defence Of Kozelsk' on left is a 16th century miniature depicting a Mongol attack on Russia; and another painting from the period portraying the capture of a Russian city by the Mongols. Photographs from Wikimedia Commons

Opinion | What the Mongol invasion and coronavirus have in common

5 min read . 02 Jul 2020

Russia will not provide us an edge over China in a prospective war, nor will it take our side.

Opinion | Russia and the India-China clash

5 min read . 26 Jun 2020

Trans activists do not command the universal backing of liberals that gay campaigners do.

Opinion | Why trans and gay rights differ

5 min read . 18 Jun 2020

Miniature paintings from the ‘Akbarnama’. (Wikimedia Commons)

Opinion | Is the lathi a colonial invention?

5 min read . 11 Jun 2020

A Thums Up ad from 1989. alamy

Is India headed back to the 1970s?

5 min read . 05 Jun 2020

The government has now made the app’s source code public.

Opinion: Does Aarogya Setu really work?

5 min read . 28 May 2020

Donald Trump’s populism is rooted in a contempt of government itself. (Getty Images)

Covid-19: Populism's moment of reckoning

5 min read . 20 May 2020

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