Mortal fear aims to muzzle Pakistani scribes. Many are defiant.

The new panchayat chief is educated, qualified, city-bred. Can they do more for our villages?

The embattled DMK is fast losing its bargaining chips

Outlook Exclusive: Extracts from the eagerly-awaited book two in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy

A timely study of India’s foreign policy: exhaustive, empathetic yet critical of a lack of strategic vision

Indo-Pak volubility notwithstanding, LoC still remains undefined

In felling its iconic trees, gurudwara ‘modernisation’ is also uprooting a part of Sikh heritage

Once leading the SEZ revolution, now Maharashtra is backing out or going slow

A novel set in India that has the hallmarks of what I would call the Indian Wedding Rock Opera genre.

How Azad manufactured medical seats

Venerating hotel guests gives them undue licence to be boors. It’s time that all changed.

A slim waist doesn't just make you look good, it signifies a lot more: good health, youth, healthy metabolic rate, strength, vigour and longevity.

A lack of sincerity is evident in the Centre’s overtures on black money

Husain’s canvases, absorbent of India, were coloured by the times

The Mohiniyattam exponent on Beyond Grace, a documentary that premiered in LA on June 9.

“Hastily conceived, poorly executed, with one eye on a litprize and the other on bestseller charts.” Hmm, now what may this be?

The Congress is hoist with its own petard. The only thing that can save the UPA is the self-destructive instinct of the Baba, who has a pronounced tendency to overreach himself.

A timely study of India’s foreign policy: exhaustive, empathetic yet critical of a lack of strategic vision

A novel set in India that has the hallmarks of what I would call the Indian Wedding Rock Opera genre.

“Katrina ki jawani/Is a radiant, candescent national truth/It makes Nitin Gadkari sing and dance with glee/And inspires Kapil Sibal to write poetry for free.”

There are films that’re so bad they turn out to be quite good—all for poking fun at. But this one is impossibly bad.

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