Alleged rape of a starlet, a society suicide, prime-time news lead, naturally. It's unlikely that most of those who tearfully watched the coverage of Nafisa's passing will know of Gunnala Narayana or his son Gunnala Kumar.

BY V. Venkatesan 2 August 2004

'... because I use tradition as a springboard to other things in my art,' says Anita Ratnam: 'Today, tradition is treated like a pond: stagnant and dull. We define tradition as what we can easily identify with, what makes us comfortable.'

BY V. Venkatesan 16 December 2003

It must be the rarefied air at those heights and the breathtaking view of mountains and valleys, not just of the sort you'd normally imagine, on a Delhi-Leh flight that left our travelling friend gasping for breath...

BY V. Venkatesan 16 October 2003

The itinerant author of, most recently, Abandon, reflects on the inequities of today's 'us-versus-them' world and says he is 'greedy with time, parsimonious in handing it out, miserly in hoarding it.'

BY V. Venkatesan 14 July 2003

In terms of costs and choice, the rollout of the Conditional Access System is great news for cable TV subscribers.

BY V. Venkatesan 19 June 2003