When former Foreign Secretary Nirupama Menon Rao recently suggested that women from India and Pakistan should come together to explore new avenues of engagement, it was presented as a thoughtful, forward-looking idea. But for many in India, the statement raises an uncomfortable question. This
Bollywood’s love affair with the gangster genre has officially reached saturation point—and Maalik is the latest, and possibly most fatigued, offering in this long line of glorified underworld sagas. There seems to be no dearth of filmmakers eager to romanticize crime lords, drug syndicates, and political thugs, repackaging the same morally bankrupt narrative under















