The Ideas Blog
Read biographySandip Roy and Lakshmi Chaudhry are Firstpost editors. They take a wide angled view on society, popular culture and books, offering counter-intuitive views on a wide range of subjects. Chaudhry has worked and written for a number of publications both in the United States and India, including Salon, the Nation, Wired, Vogue, Elle and Open magazine. Roy is also a commentator for National Public Radio in the US, and has written for Huffington Post, New America Media, San Francisco Chronicle, India Abroad among others.
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Love, sex and the dhoka of pushing the envelope in Bollywood
By Sandip Roy Bengali actress Paoli Dam has stripped naked to do a full frontal oral sex scene for an upcoming movie Chatrak. And she’s not claiming that’s a body double. Is Indian cinema finally becoming adult? As in growing up? “The audience is ready,” insists indie filmmaker Qaushiq Mukherjee aka Q (of #Aarakshan #Anurag Kashyap #Bollywood #Censorship #FilmCrit #Imran Khan #Paoli Dam #Prakash Jha #sex and bollywood #SexMatters #ThinkFest
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The corruption gene: Are Indians culturally wired to be corrupt?
"The problem with cancer is they are the very same cells that allow us to grow," said Siddharth Mukherjee on a Thinkfest panel, "the same genes that allow normal cells to grow — if you disrupt these very same genes, you unleash cancer." Cancer raises not just medical but profoundly #Corruption #liberalisaton #Pavan Varma #Siddharth Mukherjee #ThinkFest
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Politicians can learn from how Team Anna used social media: Tharoor
Editor’s Note: Firstpost editors Sandip Roy and Lakshmi Chaudhry report on the ultimate celebrity conference. A five star line up of authors, intellectuals, biz tycoons, actors, politicians and more have gathered at the Grand Hyatt in Goa as part of Thinkfest. Co-organized by Tehelka and Newsweek, this haute version of #Anna Hazare #Congress #JanLokpal #Shashi Tharoor #social media #Team Anna #ThinkFest #Twitter
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Seven ways India can rescue Pakistan
Editor's Note: Firstpost editors Sandip Roy and Lakshmi Chaudhry report on the ultimate celebrity conference. A five star line up of authors, intellectuals, biz tycoons, actors, politicians and more have gathered at the Grand Hyatt in Goa as part of Thinkfest. Co-organized by Tehelka and Newsweek, this haute version of #India #Jammu and Kashmir #Mani Shankar Aiyar #Pakistan #Pervez Hoodbhoy #ThinkFest
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Aamir Khan: Breaking the Rules
Editor’s Note: Firstpost editors Sandip Roy and Lakshmi Chaudhry report on the ultimate celebrity conference. A five star line up of authors, intellectuals, biz tycoons, actors, politicians and more have gathered at the Grand Hyatt in Goa as part of Thinkfest. Co-organised by Tehelka and Newsweek, this haute #Aamir Khan #Kiran Rao #Lagaan #Tarun Tejpal #ThinkFest
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Arvind Kejriwal: ‘Anna is not India. India is not Anna’
Editor's Note: Firstpost editors Sandip Roy and Lakshmi Chaudhry report on the ultimate celebrity conference. A five star line up of authors, intellectuals, biz tycoons, actors, politicians and more have gathered at the Grand Hyatt in Goa as part of Thinkfest. Co-organised by Tehelka and Newsweek, this haute version #Anna Hazare #Arvind Kejriwal #Lokpal Bill #ThinkFest
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What ails America: Tom Friedman’s diagnosis of a superpower in crisis
Editor's Note: Firstpost editors Sandip Roy and Lakshmi Chaudhry report on the ultimate celebrity conference. A five star line up of authors, intellectuals, biz tycoons, actors, politicians and more have gathered at the Grand Hyatt in Goa as part of Thinkfest. Co-organised by Tehelka and Newsweek, this haute version #Pratap Bhanu Mehta #The World Is Flat #ThinkFest #Thomas Friedman
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What writing can do that nothing else can: Naipaul
Editor's Note: Firstpost editors Sandip Roy and Lakshmi Chaudhry report on the ultimate celebrity conference. A five star line up of authors, intellectuals, biz tycoons, actors, politicians and more have gathered at the Grand Hyatt in Goa as part of Thinkfest. Co-organised by Tehelka and Newsweek, this haute version #Charles Dickens #Literature #ThinkFest #V. S. Naipaul #VS Naipaul
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When Gadkari the person, overshadowed Gadkari the politician
Editor's Note: Firstpost editors Sandip Roy and Lakshmi Chaudhry report on the ultimate celebrity conference. A five star line up of authors, intellectuals, biz tycoons, actors, politicians and more have gathered at the Grand Hyatt in Goa as part of Thinkfest. Co-organized by Tehelka and Newsweek, this haute version #Bharatiya Janata Party #Hindutva #Maharashtra #Narendra Modi #Nitin Gadkari #ThinkFest
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Siddhartha Mukherjee on Steve Jobs: His death was a failure of imagination
Editor's Note: Firstpost editors Sandip Roy and Lakshmi Chaudhry report on the ultimate celebrity conference. A five star line up of authors, intellectuals, biz tycoons, actors, politicians and more have gathered at the Grand Hyatt in Goa as part of Thinkfest. Co-organized by Tehelka and Newsweek, this haute version of #Barkha Dutt #Columbia University #Hasan M. Elahi #India #Newsweek #Siddhartha Mukherjee #Steve Jobs #Tehelka