Blue Green Yonder
Off the beaten track: you can yet beat the cliche. A few different trips for this summer
A Divergence Of Tracks
The argument forwarded is that when the state is short on funds, private capital will pitch in
The Turnbuckle Comes Undone
What prompted the unions to trade the closed fists for an invisible handshake?
“Nothing Like A Private Airlines In Railways”
Hours before the debate on his railway budget, a combative former railway minister defended his actions
The Great Railway Bazaar
Is the lifeline of the nation—the Indian Railways—being put on the block, bit by bit?
An Aarti From Time, A Brookings Chalisa
Are they drowned in Modi’s magnetism? Is this worship exigency?
“The BJP Must Learn To Live With Inner-Party Democracy”
The powerful BJP leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha on the challenges facing his party
Sleeps With The Fishes
If you are in Kumbalangi, you are already caught in the net. And it tastes great.
Salvation A La Mode!
To be away to the Kurseong hills that hold the rituals of tea, with a secret wish in tow
The Bandit Orchestra
The river is synonymous with outlawhood. It also supports a hardy, varied wildlife.
Road To Yekstasy!
That the world’s best dosas are found in Bangalore is a given. The only question is, which are better: the ones at Vidyarthi Bhavan or the ones at Sri Sagar?
Bibliofile
While Penguin is busy shedding its mid-listers, it’s going all out to woo the few remaining A-list authors with rival publishers.
Maximum Grotesquerie In Purple
Nagarkar’s prose, both authorial and in the attributed “free indirect”, is unrelentingly flaccid and wooden.
In The Pano Bhaju Family
Goa’s sumptuous fashion history also reflects its cultural fabric—its Portuguese-Catholic structure and Hindu core
Deool (Marathi)
Rooted in rural Maharashtra, with satire, farce and folksy, rustic humour —faltering only in its uneven tone
Vidya Balan
Do you know Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Social Sciences is planning to give me a PhD in sexuality?
Galle Diary
You can tell the Sri Lankans have moved on. No more headlines of people being blown up in buses...