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fests

Fest La Vie

Art, literature or music, there’s a jamboree for each occasion

Jan 30, 2012

| Arpita Basu
fests

Just A Literary Venue

Jaipur’s reading habit hasn’t improved

Jan 30, 2012

| Outlook
opinion

Luetic Marxists For Levite Maharajahs

The intent of litfests is to dole out patronage from within the temple. Some of us are better off without.

Jan 30, 2012

| Ashok Banker
salman rushdie

Who’s Afraid Of Nobodaddies?

Of a weak-kneed Congress and the manufactured dissent of clerics

Jan 30, 2012

| Saba Naqvi

rights: custody deaths

A Black Ledger

Custodial deaths on the rise, says report

Jan 30, 2012

| Debarshi Dasgupta
defence: army chief

The Generals And Particulars

Clearly it isn’t just the army chief’s date of birth at stake, given the wrangling and lobbying

Jan 30, 2012

| Team Outlook
- Despite Reservation...
interview

‘Are All Hands, Lotuses, Cycles Created Using Govt Funds?’

The CEC explains he has been equally tough on netas from all parties

Jan 30, 2012

| Anuradha Raman

interview

‘We Were Not Happy With India’s Stance At The IAEA’

Iran’s ambassador to India says that his country is thankful to India for ignoring the US sanctions, though.

Jan 30, 2012

| Pranay Sharma
pakistan: turmoil

Three-Legged Race

Bold sallies, tactical retreats: the Pakistani state’s figureheads test strengths

Jan 30, 2012

| Mariana Baabar
- ‘A Civilian Regime Will Be There As Cosmetic Cover’

business: auto

External Combustion

Cheaper-to-run diesel cars may cost more, idea divides auto industry

Jan 30, 2012

| Arindam Mukherjee

opinion

Reading In Darkness

How our dismal education scene is linked to our intolerance

Jan 30, 2012

| Neelabh Mishra
Mind your body

Go, Embrace The Winter Wind

Your bones and joints feel vulnerable in winter and they just don’t get any tender, loving care with inactivity.

Jan 30, 2012

| Rujuta Diwekar

cricket: revival

The Devil Betwixt Bat & Pad

As India’s Test players drown in money and misery, drastic changes can help them win back pride

Jan 30, 2012

| Rohit Mahajan

tribute

A Solo Show Closes

Homai was independent, brave, and an astute chronicler of her times

Jan 30, 2012

| Dayanita Singh

10 Questions

Yoko Ono

The artist-activist on Our Beautiful Daughters, her exhibition in Delhi

Jan 30, 2012

| Sudha G. Tilak
Gossip

Bibliofile

The competition between rival litfests and litprizes is getting fiercer. Take the case of Tibor Jones South Asia prize or Vikram Seth

Jan 30, 2012

| Outlook
last page

Madagascar Diary

I thought it was high time I visited our geological cousin Madagascar, with whom we were joined together at birth before ‘India’ decided to change hemispheres...

Jan 30, 2012

| Prabhu Ghate
Etcetera

Pollsutra 2012

News, quotes, bytes, gossip, buzz, oddities, the grapevine from the poll-bound states

Jan 30, 2012

| Outlook
Review

Copy Flips

It’s not easy to imitate Chetan Bhagat, as Judy Balan proves in this debut novel inspired by the best-selling Two States

Jan 30, 2012

| Amba Batra Bakshi
Review

Drupka’s Magic Wand

Pavan Varma treats agony and burn-out in Bhutan—land of snowy peaks, cloudy legends and nirvanic allure

Jan 30, 2012

| Geeta Doctor
Review

Write Churn

Two volumes of Nilayamgode’s autobiographical accounts compiled into a new text which can only be described as ‘found in translation’.

Jan 30, 2012

| N.S. Madhavan
the Secret Diary of

Sachin Tendulkar

Luckily, on the fourth and fifth day of the Perth test we did not lose any wickets...

Jan 30, 2012

| Ajith Pillai
Movie Review

Good Night Good Morning

This film can reach out to the young, urban, upwardly mobile, but lonely, disconnected souls living anywhere in the world, not just India.

Jan 30, 2012

| Namrata Joshi
Movie Review

4084

An exasperatingly extended introduction to utterly inane and colourless characters

Jan 30, 2012

| Namrata Joshi
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