Fast And Be In Charge
Fasts seek to make you self-reliant and put you in charge of your health (body weight too)
My Best Cricketers
Who would you pick as the best among the categories where Suresh Menon has listed six cricketers each?
Yes, We Too Can’t
Obama compromised too much, was too conciliatory and too easily browbeaten by the Tea Party leaders and their wacko demands
Occupational Hazards
How the Obama brand paled, the American prez as victim of his own popularity, unrealistic expectations
‘We Believe In The Promise Of India’
The US president says Indo-US bilateral trade has grown by 40 per cent since he took over.
A Tall Promise
America’s first ‘black’ president has failed to live up to be the great white hope that he had set out to be
A Backward Point Glance
The growing pains and glowing paeans, the giddying highs and Godawful lows. The saga of Indian cricket.
‘Intensity Brought Me Success’
On what the game meant to him and the famous intensity that brought him success and criticism.
What Speaks Louder
A point by point response to the rejoinder by CRPF to <i>Outlook</i>'s story on Chhatisgarh encounter
Witness Is What Witness Does
In the search for sensational stories, television channels often walk the dangerous line
‘I Have Written It As It Happened... Let The Readers Decide’
The RAW officer who first lead an operation to nab Rabinder Singh and has now written a thinly disguised novel on the spy master
Karan Johar
I am designing my own clothes for my visit to London for the Olympic Games where I am a special invite...
Daybreak At Lord’s
Drawn from the iconic C.K. Nayudu’s compendious scrapbooks, this is the story of India’s first England tour, and its first ever Test match
“I Am A Female, And Once Loved A Man”
"I look more male now because of regularly administered testosterone injections."
Dunk Us All Into Liquid Oxygen
The so-called seekers of systemic reforms want agreement on everything—else, we are corrupt!
Bibliofile
Who served better booze? Kuldip Nayar or Shashi Tharoor? Or should we wait for Malvika Singh's memoirs for a real high?
When Babuji Went Too Fast
The book’s milieu is that murky labyrinth of lost files, ministry corridors reeking of urinals, bribes, and back-stabbing.
Then They Espied The Eyrie
An old hand at Osama bin Laden scours every source and recreates how the US spoored, then got their man
Gattu
No mawkish melodrama here; its sensitivity and a wry sense of humour bring the film alive. Unhurried and measured.
Cocktail
Pre-interval, it could have snatched 3 stars, but the post-interval bit spoils the show entirely.
American Diary
Democracy in America apparently means the right of the lower orders to be rude to their social superiors.