Articles by Anjali Puri

Anjali Puri

Torchlights In The Swamp

Wit and restraint capture the venality of life in a Mumbai slum

Feb 13, 2012 Anjali Puri
'I Felt More Gratuitously Menaced By The Police Here'

The author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity on her reporting...

Feb 04, 2012 Anjali Puri
The Lingua Fracta

Bridging the gulf between babuspeak and the popular tongue

Jan 16, 2012 Anjali Puri
Raja Bhojanalaya

Whether Bhopal’s nawabi fare, Indore’s ghee-saturated vegetarianism, or spartan tribal cuisine, a food...

Jan 09, 2012 Anjali Puri
Chakras Aligned?

India woos Buddhists at global congress, China stiffens up

Dec 12, 2011 Anjali Puri
Hawking Poison

Desperate US prisons look for lethal drugs from India. Should we market death?

Dec 05, 2011 Anjali Puri
Just A Head To Roll?

Is Rajat Gupta all bad? Friends and ex-colleagues are divided on the former McKinsey boss.

Nov 14, 2011 Anjali Puri
A Detox For The System

A US-based doctor fights it out in India, wins Rs 1.34 crore for his wife’s death

Nov 07, 2011 Anjali Puri
Too Much Iron In the Diet...

Bail denial is itself a form of punishment. ‘Tangible’ justice? Or presumption of guilt?

Oct 24, 2011 Anjali Puri
Beyond Spade And Brush: Inner World Of Mazdoors

A tale of Delhi’s itinerant labourers, told with restraint, potent irony, gentle humour and understated...

Aug 01, 2011 Anjali Puri
Haven’t We Met Before?

A Facebook group to bring Kashmiri Muslims, Pandits together catches on

May 30, 2011 Anjali Puri
Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas, on his book India Calling

Mar 14, 2011 Anjali Puri
“Our Paper Isn’t For Our Editors. It’s For People.”

The CEO of media colossus Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd (BCCL) on brand-building, media ethics, controversies and...

Nov 01, 2010 Anjali Puri
Dreams Girl

Will love ever find a place in khap country?

Jul 12, 2010 Chander Suta Dogra
Them Mango Blues

As charges against the publishing don fly, various theories emerge

Jun 28, 2010 Anjali Puri
Play With The Khwaja

Humayun’s Tomb and Nizamuddin’s monuments are getting a shine. So are lives enmeshed in them.

Apr 05, 2010 Anjali Puri
‘My Characters Are A Fusion, Not Exact Models’

On his new novel —Naipaul, Mayawati, Mala Singh ... and of course the new India

Jan 25, 2010 Anjali Puri
For Causerati To Pull A Fast One?

Political fasts as a weapon of protest recall Gandhi, but now exhibit a more ambiguous moral purpose

Dec 28, 2009 Anjali Puri
A Pie For Sam Weller

Cosy, wood-panelled, old worldish and above all, quite unobtrusive.

Oct 12, 2009 Anjali Puri
Seminar: Fit At Fifty

This old journal keeps the faith in the simple principle it was built on

Sep 14, 2009 Dola Mitra