To All The One-By-Four Hyderabadis
Now can we have our old city back please, with our culture, and our own billionaires?
‘It’s A Geographic Division, Not People’
Party MLA and son of TRS supremo K. Chandrasekhara Rao on his future outlook for the new state and his party.
Colour Of Elation
A fractious passage later, Telangana is born. The people of Hyderabad swing between rootedness and sudden alienation.
Dying For The Gallery
Is the row over Indian worker deaths in Qatar part of a dirty tackle on the World Cup venue?
Where Shall We Drill Now?
Petroleum ministry in a bind over Reliance gas hike as PILs, AAP probe call raise din
Define, Refine, Redefine
Are the new laws against sexual harassment and rape ‘draconian’? The Tejpal debate.
A Few Turns Of The Screw
Bullied by strongarm politics and callous owners, Northeast media gasps for air in tough times
Idea For UP: Enter, NaMo The Backward
In its desperation to woo the OBC vote, BJP is projecting Modi in UP and Bihar as an EBC leader.
Shivaji: Hindu King In Islamic India
<strong>Banned book:</strong> <em>Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India </em>Oxford University Press, 2003<br><strong>Status:</strong> Maharashtra cabinet takes decision to ban the book on January 14, 2004
The Lives Of Sri Aurobindo
<strong>Banned book:</strong> <em>The Lives of Sri Aurobindo</em> Penguin, 2008<br><strong>Status:</strong> A temporary injunction against the book since 2008
Dwikhandita
<strong>Banned book:</strong> <em>Dwikhandita</em> People’s Book Society, 2003<br><strong>Status:</strong> Fatwa against her for her writings. Taslima is banned from entering West Bengal.
The Descent Of Air India
<strong>Banned book:</strong> <em>The Descent of Air India</em> Bloomsbury, 2013<br><strong>Status:</strong> Book withdrawn because of defamation charges
Jayalalithaa: A Portrait
<strong>Banned book:</strong> <em>Jayalalithaa: A Portrait</em>, Penguin, 2012<br><strong>Status:</strong> Permanent injunction against the book in 2012
The Polyester Prince
<strong>Banned book:</strong> <em>The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani </em>HarperCollins, 1998<br><strong>Status:</strong> Injunction against the book in 1998
Banished From The Bookshelves
Six authors tell their stories about what it is like to see their life’s work go waste.
Keeping My Faith In Wada
Good food has calories coming from nutrients and junk has ‘empty’ or nutrient-deprived calories.
Bibliofile
All Delhi does is read? A new home for Vikram Seth and the songs the ‘oldest debut author’ plays
On Guru Dutt’s Passion
Kesavan’s net pulls in topics like memory, cinema, politics, fixes them in a rational gaze, unafraid of common wisdom
Lagdapati Rajgopal
This is my opportunity to go down in history as the Bill Gates of the pepper spray industry...
Mumbai Diary
The city that came up with 'time-pass' and 'half-bum' has now adopted bland and the borrowed buzzwords