A week of indulgence never made anyone fat. Plan ahead and eat all the mithai you want
- COVER STORY
Bill Clinton played a big hand in Obama’s late surge. Has it set up Hillary for 2016?
Threats, posturing, more threats. The <i>National Herald</i> is a drag.
As scandals reach the Gandhi family door, is the First Family’s halo finally waning?
Obama’s victory speech reminds Indians what they are missing out on
Bill Clinton played a big hand in Obama’s late surge. Has it set up Hillary for 2016?
Obama II promises continuity in ties, but a poll-wary India isn’t ambitious
The more you read the details, the more America’s ironies bedevil you
The RSS supremo goes to bat for his boy Gadkari
Abrasive, savvy, right-wing, ubiquitous—they’re ‘Internet Hindus’
Threats, posturing, more threats. The <i>National Herald</i> is a drag.
As scandals reach the Gandhi family door, is the First Family’s halo finally waning?
Forget shaking your bon-bons. Belly up!
OTHER STORIES
Penguin-Random is official, Ruchir Sharma won the Tata Literature First Book Award and the NaMo bio seems like a real winner
New questions—on original licence, location, resale—for Vadra’s land
An English daily for Muslims is planned
Online retail is booming, but firms must zero in on a profitable model
Naipaul’s passe, our national secularism project needs new legs
In its 15th year, crime drama <i>CID</i> continues to prove the drawing power of reductive logic
An inward-looking, personal tale of passion, trust, betrayal and retribution. “Old dog” has “new tricks”.
The Chennai-based musician and creator of Carnatica, a one-stop Indian classical music portal, on his next venture, Carnatica Radio, and the eighth edition of the Bharat Sangeet Utsav
A slim volume, leisurely in pace, well-informed and felicitously written
A set of common lives helps Akash Kapur examine the ruction and the changes set off by liberal reforms
Tracking that species of Hindutvawadi, obsessively trolling the Net, looking for slights to the faith
My lawyer told me I should ‘soo’ <i>Outlook</i>. I’ll do one better. I’ll go to their office and make ‘soo soo’ on the copies.
For students of modern history, Berlin stands for war—the wars of German unification, WWI and WWII and, the Cold War




















