Modes Of Inversion

The value of Visvanathan’s essays lie in their playfully fresh insights

Well-Mannered Scriptures

For much of the book, Tharoor seems to be taking his eloquence for a test drive, without taking us anywhere...

Haalo, This Is Kalol Calling

India’s small towns have grown upwardly mobile—and the mobile has speeded them

Anybody In There?

When silence killed the economist star

On Guru Dutt’s Passion

Kesavan’s net pulls in topics like memory, cinema, politics, fixes them in a rational gaze, unafraid of...

Drinking Zyada Shakti

A Case Of Bazaar Piety

Aamir, an entrepreneur, has reconciled the market with activism

Getting The Yang Of It

A fascinating examination of what it means to be a man in modern India.

Variously Abled

A little repetitive, and not always very pleasurable, but in the final analysis, a useful and significant...

Acid On Mirror

A new way of using text and pictures that makes commentary akin to a strain of virus that explodes in each...

The Epic Of Malignancy

A US-based physician tackles the fecund life of one of our bitterest enemies with lyricism, insight and rigour

Epicure Shrugged

Wealth and pleasures have collapsed the traditional boundaries of the middle class

Two Seconds To Midnight, Indian Standard Time

Global scorn, local outrage...nothing moves the ‘Men At Work’

Message In A Bottle

Dry Gujarat says ‘cheers’ to our national hypocrisy

Reflections On A Box

That epic moment when we spotted ourselves on TV

Boy Meets Girl On A Whistling Toy Train To Candyfloss Hills

Romance without the baggage? Indian movies are still grappling with the idea.

Best And Worst Of TV

From lauding Barkha Dutt's partisanship to frowning at dumbed-down news, our couch-bound jury picks what...

Let 'Em Buy Chocolate Souffle

First Nirma crossed the lakshman rekha. Now we're looking at a new target audience — the underpriviledged.

Yaara Silly Silly

When will Bollywood be accepted for being Bollywood abroad?

Aamir As A PLUs Sign

For the upper middle class which wants only good news, DCH hits the sweet spot. It allows them their own...