Protests in New Delhi after the opposition MP Kalyan Banerjee impersonated India’s vice-president, Jagdeep Dhankar. Photograph: Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times/Getty ImagesProtests in New Delhi after the opposition MP Kalyan Banerjee impersonated India’s vice-president, Jagdeep Dhankar. Photograph: Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times/Getty ImagesGlobal developmentThere was outrage when the vice-president was mocked last month by an opposition MP, but social commentators say India is increasingly a country that cannot take a joke
It is rare for India’s politicians to laugh at themselves, but a row over an act of mimicry has exposed the extent of the lack of humour and intolerance of satire in the country’s political and public life. Read More...
Pop and rockPop’s angry young man Archy Marshall on moving to Cheshire, singing to his daughter and writing his best ever album
Some time towards the end of 2019, Archy Marshall, AKA King Krule, found himself in Warrington standing on a wide stretch of ankle-high grass. Behind him, smoke curled into the wintry sky above Fiddlers Ferry power station. With the sun setting over its chimneys, he picked out drowsy notes on his guitar, singing deeply over the top. Read More...
Film industryDespite the success of Barbenheimer, the industry faces strikes, AI concerns and an untenable situation for those not at the top
It was a pink mushroom cloud that even enveloped the White House. “Did you see Barbie or Oppenheimer this weekend?” a reporter asked the press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. She replied: “I knew I was going to get that question. I did not. But heard that it did very well. Read More...