Shanghai Diary

Though I can’t communicate except with shrugs and smiles and alien wiles, I feel much less foreign here...

We Asked Them For Stories

You will, woncha? By mid-October? While the goddess is straw still?.... Oh, but to count the bellows of the...

This Bird Doesn’t Sing

For me, Jean Louise Finch will remain a promising child who passed away young.

Unsmarting Yourself

With the same old idiots using it, smart tech doesn’t do too much

A Slipshod Savant

Chanakya returns, but unlike Twain’s Yankee, is baffled, wooden and without much agency

Tryst With Marlboro Man

Smoking equals hypocrisy. By the state, a moralising West and us.

Love’s Labour Misspent

This is a book worth reading—once.

Circus Maximus

Watching DD Sports, you may learn about hills, lakes, flowers

Fables For The Ghosts

A stricken identity, the pains of gay love, an unhappy escape, a bleeding homeland: an insightful novel

How To Write A Minor Classic

Or how a freshly written rags-to-riches story in a global hotspot with love, loss, failure, cynicism,...

The Manuscripters

The ‘varnacular’ of our society’s brand managers merits reading-into

Under Kilimanjaro’s Eyes

A post-colonial tale of a native’s return is alive with Vassanji’s sense of history, and nationalism’s...

Aborting The Real Issue

Why the rage against the Irish government is misplaced

Poet As The Battlefield

Hoskote’s labour of love is pucca on Moraes’s poetry. It’s his facile, ‘correct’ assumptions on the...

Sittilingi Diary

Wednesday evening, we had a four-foot cobra, Thursday night a spider as big as my hand, and Friday night a...

From Madhouse To Miracle

In Kerala, quotas have more than achieved what they set out to

Handcuffed In Khaki

Why Chidambaram’s exhortation on transfers means little

Now, Who Slapped ICL?

The IPL's blemishes are born of a profit-centric, bloody-minded culture

Sanni Earns His Kanji

No Sex In Gummidipundi

If there's life outside the urban North jungle, Outlook missed it