NewslettersBookmarks
Bookmarks
Sections
Features
Essentials
Print Edition
Mridula Vijayarangakumar

Mridula Vijayarangakumar Sub-Editor 

Mridula Vijayarangakumar works with Frontline’s Chennai desk.

More stories by this author

The preservation of CBFC cut lists underscores a wider struggle over transparency: when state portals retreat behind closed systems, citizen-led archives become essential repositories of public memory.

CBFC Watch: Before the censors censored themselves, two coders hit ‘save’

Recently, the Central Board of Film Certification quietly locked away eight years of cut lists. Lucky for us, two developers had already made copies.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Sep 16, 2025
The Chairman speaks about how the IIGC relies on education and mediation to address content disputes in India’s booming creator economy.

Our attempt is to mediate: Sahil Chopra

IIGC Chairman explains why India’s first influencer governing body prefers education and voluntary adoption over punitive enforcement.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Sep 05, 2025
Vohra reflects on her journey from 2002’s Unlimited Girls, which captured young women’s personal feminist freedom, to today’s feminist discourse dominated by elite voices

The division of documentary and fiction film is a false one: Paromita Vohra

The maker of Working Girls on why orthodox documentary formats reflect colonial attitudes, making films that audiences want to watch, and more.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Aug 16, 2025
One of the two protagonists of The Emperor of Gladness is Hai, a gay Vietnamese-American, the only son of a refugee mother. 

Ocean Vuong’s novel is like an extension of MFA aesthetic

The literary sensation Ocean Vuong’s second novel after the bestselling On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is grand in gesture but thin on substance.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Aug 02, 2025
With COVID-19 becoming endemic, the government’s reactive approach and weak communication strategy are under renewed scrutiny.

Is India prepared for COVID’s latest turn?

National health agencies urge coordinated action as misinformation, inadequate vaccine access, and system failures threaten containment efforts.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Jun 09, 2025
Women in the courtyard of Delhi’s Jama Masjid.

Banu Mushtaq writes women as they are: tired, resilient, and rarely thanked

In Heart Lamp, the everyday brutalities of patriarchy unfold quietly—through unpaid care, stolen choices, and a refusal to give in.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
May 13, 2025
Jeju in spring, when tourists flock to the island to enjoy its natural beauty.

Jeju’s snow does not forget

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s haunting novel turns readers into memory-keepers of the 1948 Jeju massacre.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Apr 05, 2025
This gap between perception and knowledge is what concerns Vijayakrishnan. She contrasts the quietness of Molamma’s house with the din of Ammachi’s house: in both cases, appearances are deceptive

Hidden histories: Secrets behind closed doors in a Kerala village

One Day, One Morning which addresses the important social issue of domestic abuse might have been more effective if the narrative had been tighter.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Feb 20, 2025
Manu Pillai in conversation with Vaishna Roy at The Hindu Lit for Life festival 2025 held at Sir Mutha Concert Hall in Chennai on January 19.

Hinduism still remains an extremely fluid custom: Manu Pillai

At the Hindu Lit for Life 2025, Manu Pillai and Vaishna Roy discussed the Hindu identity through the facets of colonialism, religion, and power.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Jan 20, 2025
While print journalism is undeniably on the rocks and fading, the heart of journalism, however, is far from dying: There is a healthy tussle between keeping the old and leaping into the new.

Are J-schools losing their mojo?

Even as print journalism faces an existential crisis, these challenges also present opportunities to innovate and reaffirm the profession’s relevance.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Dec 28, 2024
Death does not mean a definite end, but in Towards Eternity, Hur portrays it as a series of echoes in which the consciousness survives, with learned language and memory.

What is the true cost of living forever?

Toward Eternity says immortality’s real price is not losing our bodies—it is losing what makes us human: our mortality, our love, our poetry.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Nov 21, 2024
Rohin Bhatt merges their roles as a queer lawyer and activist to document India’s pivotal marriage equality case, where the Supreme Court denied same-sex couples the right to marry.

There is no other way of surviving other than hoping: Rohin Bhatt

The non-binary lawyer chronicles the fight for queer marriage rights in India.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Nov 19, 2024
SHOW MORE
Sign in to Unlock member-only benefits!
  • Bookmark stories to read later.
  • Comment on stories to start conversations.
  • Subscribe to our newsletters.
  • Get notified about discounts and offers to our products.
Sign in