Samrat Choudhury

Jun 30, 2012
Samrat Choudhury

Samrat Choudhury

Liberal crust, militant core

In our networked world, there are fashions that grip a majority of people of a certain class and background everywhere around the world at certain times. It could be an item of clothing, or a gadget, or even a worldview such as “Left liberalism”, which is the prevailing intellectual fashion among cultural elites.

Drinking, dancing & Dhoble

In recent times in Mumbai, anywhere that people meet for a drink, one name inevitably comes up: Dhoble. This is the surname of an assistant commissioner of police who has earned quick infamy by a series of raids on restaurants and pubs. The more outrageous cases have been widely reported.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.

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