Five Go To Gutenberg
Good ol’ Enid Blyton they’ve outgrown. These kids are writing tales of their own.
This Is Not Just Babewatch
A dress code for women playing beach volleyball puts Indians in an uncomfortable position
Block, Stock And Barrel
With the government firmly opposed to the Cairn sellout, Vedanta has hit another roadblock
A Game Lost With The Flip Of A Coin
Cricket owes its crisis to a culture pock-marked with profit motive
Hell, High Water...And Now This
The Pakistan cricket team was a last ray of hope for a marooned nation. The match-fixing scandal has snuffed that one out too.
Godavari: The New Narmada?
Will Polavaram be another ecocide zone? Not if we apply the Vedanta logic to it.
“We’re With The Report Filed By The State. People Can Say Anything.”
Union home secretary on the killing of Maoist ideologue Azad.
The Young Are Ageing
More teens are getting cardiac problems today. Is it stress, the lifestyle or just the air?
Kalinga Korma
If you want to roll up your sleeves, dig in with your fingers and be pleasantly surprised by the bill
Before He Was God: Ramayana—Reconsidered, Recreated
Varma’s intense engagement with his subject yields moving insights, while humorous and tragical interludes lend immediacy.
Cinema Bhojpuri
A joy to read and informative; the footnotes are as interesting as the narrative itself
A Pre-Fab Earthquake
The foreteller of the financial crash ignores a Left-Right binary, faults endemic inequality and political quick-fix
Sittilingi Diary
Wednesday evening, we had a four-foot cobra, Thursday night a spider as big as my hand, and Friday night a five-inch scorpion...
Aashayein
Fails to measure up to what it is inspired from — the most famous 'death' film, <i>Anand</i>.
Anupam Mukerji
He’s the fake IPL player, the blogger known for his fake behind-the-scene account of IPL II
Mazhar Majeed
'Remember to wear a black shoe on your left foot and a sandal on the right. There’s a lot of money riding on it'