showtime
A triumph of mise-en-scene, with superb art direction and a refined palette of tones, more matte than glossy. But in going for surface, they sacrificed a bit of depth
Magazine | Nov 09, 2009
kashmir: diary
India dare not tempt fate by asking the Kashmiris, but what's audible on the ground is a complex medley
Magazine | May 25, 2009
Bharat Ratna
Art is a sovereign nation. Just how do you summon a king to court?
Magazine | Dec 08, 2008
Bharat Ratna
The State wants to be the grand jury, playing patron like the old nawabs and rajas. But art is a sovereign nation... and just how do you summon a king to the court?
Web | Nov 12, 2008
Review
A scholar-gypsy's guided tour through Vedic country
Magazine | Aug 25, 2008
Review
Determined to find a gentle, liberal way to be conservative, a way to be rooted without being parochial or insular.
Magazine | May 12, 2008
Confessional
Printer's devil? No, goof-ups are the work of a Comic God.
Magazine | Oct 15, 2007
column
So we don't just live next door to Absurdistan, it's in our marrow. As Advani once said, "Desh ka vayumandal kharab hai". (He wasn't talking carbon emissions.)
Magazine | Oct 01, 2007
column
Pakistan’s again at what hacks love to euphemise as an "inflexion point" in its history. Nawaz Sharif is again the paragon of liberty..One feels sorry for Musharraf...
Magazine | Sep 24, 2007
column
"Sir, what is the time?" Man 2, glancing at watch, gravely, "It’s too late." Too late for what? "Too late for you and me."
Magazine | Sep 17, 2007
column
Making bold to explore a humbler method to crack the dimly understood laws of international relations. An unofficial oral history of geopolitics.
Magazine | Sep 10, 2007
pop idiom
The film song is mass hypnotism, an aid to help us forget. But the past never leaves.
Magazine | Jun 26, 2006
Opinion
Everything, it seems, has a limit. Why does the media start haemorrhaging at the prospect of India's fringe breaking its silence? Are we afraid of our democracy?
Magazine | Mar 27, 2006
Looking Back
The '90s in meltdown. Then an apparition in print. The story, from the gut.
Magazine | Oct 17, 2005
Diary
Magazine | Sep 12, 2005
Diary
Magazine | Sep 12, 2005
Diary
Magazine | Sep 12, 2005
Diary
Magazine | Sep 12, 2005
What If....
What an option it might have been! A Sanskritised landscape! Taporis spouting Kalidasa...LS debates in devabhasha (Krama! Krama! Aham Somanatha Chattopadhyaya vadaami!...)
Magazine | Aug 23, 2004
India's linguistic landscape cuts up the people into ever so smaller allegiances. But language, through its speakers, finds its own resolutions.
Magazine | Aug 20, 2001