profile
Nandita Das’s unflinching liberalism sets her agenda in cinema and beyond
Magazine | Sep 21, 2009
Opinion
The UPA has won a more convincing victory than I had hoped for: getting close to a majority on its own.
Magazine | May 25, 2009
Conversation
When two legendary editors get together for a no-holds-barred conversation ranging from sex, dirty jokes to Maneka's "badly brought up" son, Varun, there is really nothing to hide. Excerpts from a recent conversation
Web | Apr 21, 2009
Opinion
There is also a streak of masochism, the desire to hurt oneself, in Varun's mother's family
Magazine | Apr 13, 2009
Review
A self-identifying, dispiriting tour of Islam's extremities inlaid with personal history
Magazine | Apr 13, 2009
profile
Dignity in a high place, personified by a quiet, assertive sardarni
Magazine | Feb 16, 2009
Sex in fiction
Once prissy, Indian fiction has embraced Eros, the negater of evil
Magazine | Jan 26, 2009
Review
These stories are precursors to the Booker winner, with similar characters and incidents, and are better
Magazine | Nov 24, 2008
living history
Khushwant Singh turned 13 in 1928
Magazine | Oct 20, 2008
Outlook Exclusive
Social climber, name-dropper and malicious gossip par excellence, she is Not a Nice Woman to Know, but she's irresistible company...A new short story by Khushwant Singh,
specially written for Outlook
Magazine | Sep 08, 2008
Short Story
This story could also be entitled 'From Babar to Kenneth Tyson' because its theme is the reaction to India of foreigners...
Magazine | Sep 08, 2008
Short Story
Pinching is not the right word. If the bottom is nicely rounded, I would like the freedom to caress it in the cup of my palm...
Magazine | Sep 08, 2008
Review
Florence and Fatehpur Sikri, the Mughals and the Medicis, wisdom and bawdiness—the sound and fury of Rushdie's latest novel finally signify nothing
Magazine | Apr 28, 2008
Review
A must-read memoir it sure is. But if you are looking for answers, there are none.
Magazine | Apr 07, 2008
opinion
The hard truth about Indian journalism: proprietors matter, editors don't
Magazine | Mar 24, 2008
Review
Unforgivable omissions, insipid choices of prose and poetry and a novel theory on the origins of Urdu—these anthologies do scant justice to their grand design
Magazine | Jan 21, 2008
Review
Another addition to Gandhiana. But, notably, it clears misconceptions and brings out the real Mahatma from under the surface of formalised respect and awe.
Magazine | Nov 12, 2007
Opinion
Stays the way it is...but bashes superstitions, has shorter pieces, more on Nature
Magazine | Oct 15, 2007
books
Desani stirred the first Indian literary storm abroad, later Rushdie smashed a few literary barriers. After Vikram Seth and Amitav Ghosh, the deluge.
Magazine | Aug 20, 2007
Books
So agree or disagree with Khushwant Singh's list of 12 significant books that he rates as the best in the last 60 years?
Magazine | Aug 20, 2007