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Ranjona Banerji
About the AuthorRanjona Banerji
The writer is a senior journalist who writes on media affairs, politics and social trends.
    Its not all sapsuckers and sappy stories. There are those harsh realities of the countryside. Of the lack of basic amenities. Health, education, migration for work. Of environmental destruction and the resultant devastation. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Ranjona Banerji | Concrete threat, but there's bignonia, and birdsong

    Dehradun has no buzz. It has higgledy-piggledy growth. Almost none of it is organic

    21 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

    Im not the sort of writer who spent the Pandemic lockdown carefully crafting my creative skills and honing my talent so I could write that exemplar novel, that series of high philosophy essays to understand humanity, that definitive book on the state of the nation. (Representative Photo)Opinion
    Ranjona Banerji | My one true calling… and how life got in the way

    As an adolescent, like most others, I wrote those poems. Emotions crystallized in show-off nonsense from studying...

    17 Jan 2021 4:12 AM IST

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    Ranjona Banerji | Confessions of an old feminist

    Between the ages of 12 to 39, I also thought I knew everything and this self-delusional omniscience peaked in my 30s

    12 Dec 2020 10:53 PM IST

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    Ranjona Banerji | How I tweeted away my pandemic summer

    I say this to sound like I have an all-round life, but I mean Twitter

    22 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

    VP Menon. The Unsung Architect of Modern IndiaLifestyle
    BOOK REVIEW | A whitewashed portrait shorn of biases, insights

    For this reviewer, the fact that a book has been written about V.P. Menon is insufficient.

    3 Nov 2020 1:45 AM IST

    white By Brett Easton Ellis Knopf, Rs 799Lifestyle
    Ruminations on echo chambers and writing

    By extension possibly, those who are deeply connected to the world of movies, wherever they may live.

    8 Dec 2019 1:34 AM IST

    Emergency, scrutinised through the female gazeLifestyle
    Emergency, scrutinised through the female gaze

    It is too easy to just set it in the Emergency or in India and the world of the 1970s.

    15 Sept 2019 12:56 AM IST

    Hindutva incursion in akharas, Nagas last men standingLifestyle
    Hindutva incursion in akharas, Nagas last men standing

    The run up to the success of the demolition plan, as far as the RSS was concerned, lay in Ayodhya.

    18 Aug 2019 1:21 AM IST

    Fear, humour mix in sadly prescient saga of our timesLifestyle
    Fear, humour mix in sadly prescient saga of our times

    The world here has changed, those who have been portrayed as the “Other” have been detained.

    23 Jun 2019 3:35 AM IST

    Shades of Saffron: From Vajpayee To Modi by Saba Naqvi Westland, Rs 599Lifestyle
    Book Review: Immensely readable, but only about Atal Behari Vajpayee

    As it happened, I started reading Shades of Saffron just after former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee passed away.

    2 Sept 2018 6:34 AM IST

    Devi: The Goddesses of India edited by John Stratten Hawley, Donna Marie Wulff Aleph, Rs 499Lifestyle
    Book Review 'Indian goddesses: Legends, realities'

    The introduction to this edition, by John Stratten Hawley, starts with the rise of Santoshi Ma, from the 1975 Hindi...

    1 Dec 2017 2:25 AM IST

    As Hawley lays out the structure of the book, he also discusses the idea of shakti, of the Goddess who is part of a God and yet separate, and the new manifestations of the Goddess seen across India today not just Santoshi Ma but also Vaishno Devi .Lifestyle
    Indian goddesses: Legends, realities

    Local ideas of the Goddess are examined in the chapters on Vidhyavasini, Bhagavati, Sati and Seranvali.

    27 Nov 2017 6:22 AM IST

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