Narendra Modi
So, what exactly happened at the SIT office in Gandhinagar? No, I didn’t go but I did send a lookalike...
The Cochin Critters
Hard-nosed business meets regional pride and blends with love for cricket: IPL comes to Kerala
Phantom Under The Naked Bulb
Forget getting Headley to India, will India get to Headley even in the US?
Shadows Of The Dreamy Spires?
The arrival of foreign universities could create ‘creamy layers’ of another sort
Dreaming Of Electric Sheep?
The latest electronic shineware offers more than just versatility and uber performance. A quick overview of the attention-grabbers.
Bibliofile
Is there a retirement age for novelists? At 96, Khushwant Singh is putting the finishing touches to his latest novel
Parallel Lines Converge
Agha Shahid Ali’s poetic persona embraced modernist reticence as well as the cacophony of Indic traditions
Vihir (The Well)
A luminous instance of the classic, humanist tradition of filmmaking. A rare beauty.
Bangkok Diary
Rawalpindi—that is, the army, for Islamabad means government—has given up the daft idea of evacuating the Punjab and retreating into the ‘strategic depth’ of Kabul.
Before You Die
The only way to get the real thing is to get invited to an old Hyderabadi home...or to order from Mrs Hassan.
‘The Taliban And India Can Be Reconciled’
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid spoke to Rahimullah Yusufzai
Play With The Khwaja
Humayun’s Tomb and Nizamuddin’s monuments are getting a shine. So are lives enmeshed in them.