Gentle Reminders For A Night Of Light
A week of indulgence never made anyone fat. Plan ahead and eat all the mithai you want
Big Dog At The Plate
Bill Clinton played a big hand in Obama’s late surge. Has it set up Hillary for 2016?
Two Decks Of Bleeding Sentiments
Threats, posturing, more threats. The <i>National Herald</i> is a drag.
Valori Della Famiglia
As scandals reach the Gandhi family door, is the First Family’s halo finally waning?
Bibliofile
Penguin-Random is official, Ruchir Sharma won the Tata Literature First Book Award and the NaMo bio seems like a real winner
A Straight Shooter On The Hip
In its 15th year, crime drama <i>CID</i> continues to prove the drawing power of reductive logic
Skyfall
An inward-looking, personal tale of passion, trust, betrayal and retribution. “Old dog” has “new tricks”.
K.N. Shashikiran
The Chennai-based musician and creator of Carnatica, a one-stop Indian classical music portal, on his next venture, Carnatica Radio, and the eighth edition of the Bharat Sangeet Utsav
In The Dark Towards Pondy
A set of common lives helps Akash Kapur examine the ruction and the changes set off by liberal reforms
Who Milks This Cow?
Tracking that species of Hindutvawadi, obsessively trolling the Net, looking for slights to the faith
‘Sethji’
My lawyer told me I should ‘soo’ <i>Outlook</i>. I’ll do one better. I’ll go to their office and make ‘soo soo’ on the copies.
Berlin Diary
For students of modern history, Berlin stands for war—the wars of German unification, WWI and WWII and, the Cold War