Not Quite A Mandela Moment
As Myanmar’s people hope warily, Suu Kyi’s tenuous freedom would be spent well on conciliation
‘Mukesh Said, Haan Yaar, Ranjan, Congress To Ab Apni Dukaan Hai’
Ranjan Bhattacharya, Former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee’s foster son-in-law
‘Give Your Story To A Paper Which Will Carry It As A Lead Flyer. Isko CNBC Ko Do
M.K. Venu, Senior business journalist
'Who Do You Want Congress To Talk To? Karunanidhi? I’ll Speak To Ahmed Patel.’
Vir Sanghvi, HT advisory editorial director
‘What Do You Want Me To Tell Them (The Congress)? Tell Me. I’ll talk To Them.’
Barkha Dutt, Group editor, English news, NDTV
There Was A Swan, It Had A Tale
Media grandstanding aside, it was the Pioneer that broke open the 2G scam
The Truth Conditions
Manmohan Singh’s time, strangely, has seen more scams than any of his predecessors. What price the ‘Mr Clean’ image?
All Lines Are Busy
There was not one pie Niira Radia didn’t have her hand in nor any area—media, corporate or government—she didn’t have a contact in
‘Our Country Didn’t Want Us’
“Why should I stay back in a country that doesn’t want us even if that is my own country?”
How To Stay Silent In Chinese
Assam’s Chinese can’t live down the dread of ’62: segregation, deportation, the loss of home
The Wind Has Followed Us
S.S. Ray saw history up close, scripting some of his own. Notes from an unwritten biography.
Bibliofile
No, there is no reference to a sexual harassment case in Davidar's new book, Jeet Thayil’s debut novel and KS calls it quits
Mater Linear
It is hard not to be reminded of the orphan heroes of Dickens. Only here the benefactors are replaced by benefactresses.
Burger Courtier
There is little to commend in this novel for which we must blame the generosity—or carelessness—of India’s burgeoning publishing industry
The Indus In Spate: A Book Of Omens
Granta luxuriates in the remarkable flourish in English writing from a land divided by the faultlines of extremism
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part I
As kids grow older, the unconditional affection for them often begins to get tempered by bouts of irritation. It’s much the same with the Harry Potter series
The Social Network
Entertaining cinema but not a masterpiece to keep referring back to. Smart and cool, perhaps a bit too much so.
Karan Johar
The latest season of his chat show <i>Koffee with Karan</i> is on. So we put him on his black couch.
Kapil Sibal
“Puttar,” thundereth they in Punjab da tongue, “talkest thou of Shakespeare? Well, with careful ear listen, mortal!
Calcutta Diary
Here, by popular request from my (male) Bengali friends, is a list of ‘Yet Another 10 Reasons Not To Marry a Bengali Girl’