Constitutional Weakness
Nepal’s fractious polity fumbles for a solution. India, as a cohering agent, has a high stake in it.
The Butterfly Effect
A proactive minister puts Paryavaran Bhavan in focus. The development dauphins are aflutter.
Hanging Up On The Eavesdroppers
Clean-up operations are on at the NTRO but who will head it: an intelligence official or a DRDO man again?
By The Way, I Dropped It
India’s defence data could be an open secret. Ask the NTRO bosses who lost their laptops.
Police Will Police The Police
Four years on, and the UPA’s promise of police reforms is barely in sight
Past The Last Post
In remotest Bengal the ‘runner’ of old exists still, with his burden of news and fortitude
Platinum Man’s Dance
The costliest Indian film, a Rajni-Ash starrer with international collaborations. Will it work?
We Shouldn’t Get Bugged
The superbug’s name is no issue, India must focus on combating drug resistance
Bibliofile
Sardar Khushwant doesn't like dry days. And who's the most sought after literary patroness in Delhi?
The Case Of The Man Who Died Laughing
Quirky, bright and eccentric, Indian Poirot Vish Puri finds it as hard to pass up a “good murder” as go without lunch.
The Pleasure Seekers
The novel as a whole seems to have been assembled in a prolonged fit of inattention
Ears On Cobblestones
Two books offer no insight into the enigma of 1857, but, laudably, listen in on marginalised voices and oral lores
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Peepli [Live]
There are repetitive strands and loose ends which ask for explanations but eventually it makes a point and poignantly at that.
Owais Husain
The artist son of painter-in-exile M.F. Husain on his first exhibition in Mumbai in a decade
Shera The Mascot
I now hear Mahesh Bhatt is threatening to make a sci-fi film on my miserable life (working title: Shera—a 2010 Games Odyssey)
Istanbul Diary
India or Pakistan, they ask you as you are bargaining in the Grand and Spice Bazaars. When I say India, they say, ‘Ah, Hindoostan? I love you’...