Oranges For Lemons
No leadership, no gameplan and hurtling from crisis to crisis, the BJP is in a right royal soup
Spider At The Centre
A flood on WikiLeaks reveals Pakistan’s worst-kept secret: the ISI-Taliban affair
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Great Expectations [Live]
At <i>Peepli</i>’s ground zero, hope floats. Will the film better the lives of the villagers?
Remote Control Goodness
The government considers giving corporates more than a nudge towards social initiatives
Where Dilton Goes To IIT
A 14-year-old home-schooled Delhi boy makes it to IIT. How different can life get?
Something Is Rotten
The poor stare vacantly as a food-surplus nation lets its stock spoil in the open
The Eat Is On, On The Streets
Small, intimate spaces with charm and character have become choice du jour for the trendy set
Revel Without A Pause
Starting past midnight and continuing till dawn, the after-party has become serious business
Bhojan Bhajan
A cult eating joint, hidden deep in the gullies of Kalbadevi: the kind of place that everybody’s heard legends about, but hasn’t got round to visiting yet.
Bibliofile
The country’s most powerful politician is also a secret patron of books, especially if they’re about Hindustani music and musicians
On The Half-Tones Of Truth
C.G. Somiah’s memoirs, in both form and content, reflect his famed qualities: uprightness and modesty
Khatta Meetha
Ample doses of over-the-top buffoonery and liberal sprinkling of double entendre. One of the most cringe-worthy films from Priyadarshan...
Ruth Padel
The great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin was at the Bombay Natural History Society for a talk on nature poetry and writing
Amitabh Bachchan
The metamorphosis from actor to kisan came courtesy Mayawati and not Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Bollywood Diary
Naseeruddin Shah on the one actor he looks up to: “Shammi Kapoor! Yes, Shammi saab, such fun; I grew up watching Shammi Kapoor movies.”