Oct 06, 2021 Mukul Kesavan’s essay on middle-class nostalgia in India—looking back fondly at a time when Indians were worse-off than they are today.
Apr 29, 1996 Curiosity took writer Mukul Kesavan and cartoonist Ajit Ninan through Faizabad and Ayodhya where they found little evidence of a Ram Leher but felt the undercurrents...
Aug 09, 1997 If we have one shared turf of experience, it's Hindi cinema. And since all the radio ga-ga over Pataudi's swishing blade, cricket's been our unofficial adhesive
Dec 27, 1997 The Indian electorate shows a preference for the shorter game
Apr 10, 1999 Seth is better at describing his character's joyous passion for music than his brooding love
Oct 09, 1999 Wonderland studios, slick potty seats and inaccurate number- crunching comprised polls on TV
Mar 18, 2000 A much-needed, comprehensive listing of Delhi's historical buildings
Mar 03, 2001 Bradman lives alone on Olympus. Tendulkar, the best batsman today, with an average hovering around 57, labours in the foothills.
Jan 04, 2003 So the grinches stole Christmas and your faith in democracy. There's more to life. Isn't there? Cricket? Um.... The economy? Well, whatever. Just...
May 12, 2007 Austere, inward micro-patriotism: Mother India left a difficult legacy. We mostly need less abstract enemies.
Jan 05, 2008 Refugees from the streets, killers from next door, the terrible violence inside us
Jan 12, 2008 Dodgy umpiring and onfield bluster have a symbiotic relation in Australia
Jan 19, 2008 Coming from a world where institutions have collapsed, the provincial student displays an intensity the metropolitan lacks
May 10, 2008 A Jat playing bhadralok? Could it have been that he acted so well that we didn't even notice?
Jun 21, 2008 In lurid, tinny Tamil pulp, starlets rest cheek-by-jowl with gods. Remarkably satisfying.
Oct 11, 2008 In its 13 years, Outlook has honed a peculiarly Indian take on secular fair play that opens its pages to diversity and dissent
Jan 03, 2009 In location and language, I was more an Agrawal from Delhi than an Iyengar from Mysore
May 09, 2009 Azhar's very name may turn Congress's 25 years of electoral misfortune here
Aug 13, 2011 Why isn’t good news getting the space it deserves? Is it too undramatic, does it sound implausible? Are we too much in the sway of the brute Indian reality?
