A Bullet Hanging In The Air
Is there substance to Gurudas Dasgupta’s letter on the A-G, or has he been misled?
‘The A-G Is Very Smart; He’s Also Socially Active And Smooth’
The activist-lawyer pulls no punches on the Attorney General
Who Is This Man Firing The Gun For?
Goolam Essaji Vahanvati, the Attorney-General of India, courts more controversies than he helps dispel
When The Dragonflies Come Out
Fukushima grapples with the radiation fallout, Japan with idea of N-power itself
Give Us Our Daily Slingshots
Hindutva bigotry vs Islamic jehad. The history of terrorism in India is that of competitive communalism.
A Jat, A Gujjar, A Thakur...
The Muslims are gone, the cane is rotting away. The rumour mill grinds away.
Who’ll Sharpen The Sickles Now?
The Muslims are never going back, the Jats talk of discrimination. Muzaffarnagar will never be the same again.
Coaldust On Them Whites
Tollywood’s dream merchant can’t whitewash his dubious role in Coalgate when he was MoS
A Long Benefit Of Clergy
The tacit quietus on any criticism of Sachin may just subside after his retirement
The Achaemenids At Ankleshwar
Parsis: myth, ethics, the arts and pride informs every fibre of their material pursuit. A SOAS exhibition says little.
Mathsya Of Madras
Even Vishnu in his mathsya avatar must be puzzled at what’s being dished out in his name.
Beneath The Waterfall
Kakar’s reading of the youthful Tagore and his late paintings traces in his deep solitude a source of imaginative strength
Delhi Diary
Mr Modi is perfectly entitled to advertise his fondness for the Sardar’s ideology and rivalry with Nehru