The ‘Normal’ Lens

From the humanism of nuances and absences of his early work, to the pessimism and despair of the polemical...

At Swim, Two Birds Perched On Latticed Sites

Outlook and internet in India drew first breath only a day apart. The former took Indian magazine journalism...

Tap The Ash Here

Can people look at smoking with a scientific temper?

Starry-Eyed At The House Of Reels

The big screen. Up there dreams are built and spilt, lives are lived, loved and lost and all of us are along...

The Daggers In Chinatown

A recalcitrant Bengal under Chinese control, a gallery of grotesques, murder—this futuristic comedy can...

The Great Ethnic Trail

A new clothes brand marries international chic with the wealth of Indian craftsmanship

We Play Better Barefootball

Till the 1960s, India was a fooballing power. Then came the decline.

C Beckett b Pinter

Cricket, lovely cricket! And

Inner Most Allies

Alumni cults have been there as long as there have been alumni. It’s a members only club, and it looks out...

A Different River Every Time

What is ‘smart’ and how does it fit our consciousness? Is there just one way to it? Are smarter people...

“The Unluckiest Man In The World?”

An extract from the best-selling book on the trial of the former Goldman Sachs director who has been ordered...

The Greatest Story Ever Told, Again

Exclusive extracts from a re-imagining of the Mahabharata set in the Mumbai underworld

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A Poetry Long Gone

Time was, you could feel cricket. YouTube killed the radio star.

Goddammit! A Vasudev And His Radio Wave!

India, 2000 BC. Stewing in its own mythology, a ripping fantasy yarn has the mortal Shiva look evil in the...

The Great Indian Reel Revolution

It has been a decade when cinema has seen more risk-taking than ever before - with subjects, treatment,...

Democracy On Shopshelves

Brands empower us to choose, be it products or politicians. And to kill the unfit.

Ode To The Rainbow's End

Happiness happens. But the patterns of its arrival are random and its departures are staggeringly...

Killer Tsunami

We are proud of our team's commitment to our readers, but we also do not want to do this again...

Eden Rhapsody