The Khans @ 50 & Me @ 53
It appears that our in-denial, Hindi cinema plays the sexist game clumsily and in-your-face.
We Are Wasting Money In The Name Of Budgetary Allocation
Social entrepreneur Vijay Mahajan on how the budget has not addressed the issue of implementation of social schemes and policies.
“Inside My Head, I Feel Like 18 Or 21...”
Birthday boy Aamir Khan talks about what turning 50 means to him.
“Not For Me Monarchical Vicissitudes”
Amitabh Bachchan on the three young men who who took over the mantle of superstardom from him.
The Three Musketeers Of Bollywood
Aamir, Salman, Shahrukh turn 50. They have owned the Hindi film for half their lives already.
‘We Should Not Be So Scared Of Foreign Investors’
An interview with two-time finance minister Yashwant Sinha who has left an indelible stamp on the Indian economy.
Digging In The Wrong Grave
Eco Survey upends notion that ‘Jayanthi green tax’ stifled private sector projects
School Of Hard Knocks
The NDA’s high-growth Budget formula, in combination with reduced social spends, is one that India can ill afford at this juncture
Those Pressure Cooker Situations
Our cricket commentary and commentators thrive on the banal—somebody needs to pad up, inject some intelligence and passion
Playing In The Temperate Zone
The latest ODI-prediction techniques have it easy. Thus far, the World Cup is on the expected track. A loose, baggy format is seeing to that.
Why We Love To Hate Outlook
Praises for 'editorial integrity' to a 'hard-hitting' letter that even the writer thought would never see the light of day.
Bibliofile
The next bombshell for the Congress could well be discredited UPA minister A. Raja’s forthcoming book.
Here We Come, Dorian Gray
The best way to use the knowledge this book imparts is to treat it like a supermarket.
In Malik Ayaz’s Dreams
A marvellous account of the early firangis who turned Indian is a salad of identities and a mirror of Indianness
Thanda Matlab ‘Thandai’
The clever use of almonds, khus-khus, pepper, cardamom, saffron and saunf makes for a really powerful energiser.
Luis J.A Wee
The founder of The Rainforest Challenge on the off-road motor sport and its future in India
Nitin Gadkari
'It’s a shark, it’s a whale, it’s the Loch Ness monster...no, it’s that Indian minister Nitin Gadkari'
Pakistan Diary
Friend Jyoti Malhotra scored a pack of cigarettes in the coffee shop at the departure lounge, but they had no matches or lighters.
