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Wealth, lust, and betrayal set against the backdrop of Regency-era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family landed on Netflix in December 2020 and since has generated a real stir. It has become the show which is breaking all records. 

This season was all about Daphne and Simon but despite all the love it has been receiving, is it the perfect youth romance meets historical fiction or is there more to it that the grandeur of the production hides?

Released on 20th October 1995, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge went on to become the longest in cinema running Hindi movie of all times. It has been 25 years. From its release to date, we, as a society, have evolved. Yet, the romance which DDLJ tries to showcase is considered the epitome and the best kind. Is it really? Have movies changed?

Since Black Lives Matter gained momentum, there has been a series of activities going on. One of them is the demand to remove statues of people who had racist traits. In this edition of Table Talks (Matter), Neelofar Abu Eusuf talks to Prerana Srimaal, Associate Professor and scholar, about the ongoing situation, the way forward and attempt to review how we shape our past in the present.

Paran Amitava talks to Sajjan Kumar about how UP is a model of institutionalized everyday communalism whose defining feature is that rather than initiating major, state-wide riots, the strategy of the BJP–RSS currently is to create and sustain constant, low-key communal tension together with frequent, small, low-intensity incidents out of petty everyday issues that institutionalize communalism at the grassroots.

The debate over the police as an institution and its practices in the United States has captured the attention of people around the world. Surprisingly, this has failed to spark a debate about instances in India of police bias, unfair treatment and brutality, as well as selective persecution of particular communities. To help us understand this better, Paran Amitava talks to Chaitanya Pradeep, Associate Professor of Political Science, who has carried out extensive research on the workings of Indian Police.