In The Deepest Pickle
Grandma should have branded pickles as fat-burning, given them an exotic name, and charge you millions
‘Why Should You Import The Walmart Culture?’
The Nobel laureate speaks on 'reforms', growing inequality in the world and the challenges facing India.
‘India Has To Open Its Market More To Those With Whom It Shares Interests’
"If you account for 20 per cent of the world’s population, only contribute 2 per cent to global trade, but still want 8 per cent growth, you need to open up."
Breaking News Together?
Is the media playing willing ally in Arvind Kejriwal’s movement against corruption?
‘One Can Be In Cahoots With CIA, Not BJP’
The ex-IB director answers Digvijay Singh's charge of orchestrating the attacks on Sonia and Rahul Gandhi in league with the BJP
Aam Army
Arvind Kejriwal is certainly kicking up a storm. But will the whirlwind translate into political reform?
Bibliofile
Shobha De is writing fiction again after a decade, and Penguin is not leaving any page unturned from its marketing manual
Your Twice-Broken Heart
Diaz is skilful to say the least: electrifying idiom, convincing characters, dark humour, and a nuanced and thrilling narrative.
Just Fill In The Blanks
An ear for dialogue, eye for detail, brisk characterisation can’t cover up for a lack of deeply-felt truth in Rowling
Aiyyaa
It’s loud, garish, deliberately over the top. And it gets ludicrous and obtuse in trying to be clever and irreverent!
Mumbai Lit Socialite
Sometimes I wish the Nobel Literature prize was abolished so that people like me could get some rest.
South Africa Diary
Apartheid is now legally permitted only in the separation of the smokers’ lounge from the non-smokers.