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gossip
“The two most depressing words in the English language are ‘literary fiction’”
10 Questions
Author and documentary filmmaker on her book The Dialogue of the Film ‘Mother India’
showtime
From a romance to a thriller to one of Bollywood’s recently fashionable (but fake) trysts with fancy illnesses, KCK doesn’t know which way it wants to go
delhi Restaurant
The walls are clad in Japanese-style pop art. The menu has funny faces. Chopsticks come with instructions on how to use them to eat, and imitate a walrus...
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cover story
UPA-II’s first full budget has shown welfarism the door
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religion: fanatics
The Muslim liberal has no one in his corner. Is state policy responsible?
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rape victims compensation
Monetary help for rape victims is stuck
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poll sutra
My focus today is on M.F. Husain. He is neither a Marathi manoos—though he was born in Pandharpur, Solapur district, Maharashtra—nor is he an Indian anymore.
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diplomacy: west asia
India warms up to the Arab world—vital in itself and in its effects
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policy: languages
Our new realities call for new language skills
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language: bengali
Hindi-borne impurities irk Bengali language purists
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internet: humour
In the dark cyber alley, satirist gangs poke fun at the passing world
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nutrition: millets
The humble grain soars as it enters the red book of healthy diets
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ANDHRA PRADESH: AGRICULTURE
A state government helps farmers go organic
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hockey change
How has it come about that the elite has so taken to the hockey World Cup? Mostly a fad, it seems. And patriotism.
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review
Pavan Varma’s inveighing against a baleful colonial influence is rooted in the Hindi sphere’s fragile ego
Swapan Dasgupta on Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution Of Culture And Identity By Pavan K. Varma
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review
To see Dharavi as a self-renewing organism that is changing, upgrading its own structure of accommodation, is the great gift of the book.
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review
For an anthology that contours the most life-affirming of relationships, this is a cold, bleak book.
Kalpish Ratna on An Endless Winter’s Night: An Anthology Of Mother-Daughter Stories Edited By Ira Raja, and Kay Souter
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