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cover story

Modi Metrics

Will he run the country like he’s run his campaign—around himself?

Apr 21, 2014

| Saba Naqvi
cover story

The West: A New Scepticism

Western media is still apprehensive of a Modi-led India

Apr 21, 2014

| Pranay Sharma
cover story

The Hawk And The Huntsman

Today Modi faces few naysayers. What will happen tomorrow?

Apr 21, 2014

| Uttam Sengupta

pipraua

Walks Of Shame

Pipraua hankers for a road. They haven’t got one, so they’re staying put.

Apr 21, 2014

| Priyadarshini Sen
mumbai nw

Lens Turned Inward

Mahesh Manjrekar may find politics a vastly different theatre

Apr 21, 2014

| Prachi Pinglay-Plumber
darjeeling

Dribble And Shout

Football icon Baichung Bhutia hits a wall on the Gorkhaland issue

Apr 21, 2014

| Nabendu Guha
Elections

Poll Waltz 2014

The buzz, the goss, the news, the juice. Snippets from all over

Apr 21, 2014

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youth

Heat Of Life In A Handful Of Dust

Disaffected youngsters are responding to hopelessness in ways politicos can’t fathom

Apr 21, 2014

| Pragya Singh
rajasthan

Independents’ Day, Is It?

Once of the BJP, they are now against the BJP. And therefore their worst enemy.

Apr 21, 2014

| Neelabh Mishra
chhattisgarh

Shadow Parade

Someone’s been unleashing namesakes!

Apr 21, 2014

| Yashwant Dhote
hazaribagh

Under The Fruit Tree

Yashwant Sinha’s son Jayant hitches wagon to the Modi wave

Apr 21, 2014

| Suman Shrivastava
karnataka

Skip, Skim, Skewer

The BJP’s new high confounds recent history

Apr 21, 2014

| Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi
essay

Nearing Port, There’s No Abandoning Ship

Let us not expect Modi to relinquish his ideological roots. The BJP’s poll manifesto points to the limits of his flexibility.

Apr 21, 2014

| N. Ram
opinion

One-Man Tea Party

The Modi campaign is a copycatting of US right-wing tactics

Apr 21, 2014

| Harish Khare
goa

Secular Jugular

With the Congress mess, the BJP almost had it in the bag...till the Church woke up

Apr 21, 2014

| Arun Sinha
vidarbha

Dry Thoughts In A Dry Season

There’s no enthusiasm for the elections in this region, deadened by years of hardship

Apr 21, 2014

| Prachi Pinglay-Plumber
udhampur

Zafrani Pulao

Azad’s plodding, BJP riding Modi wave

Apr 21, 2014

| Ashutosh Sharma

pakistan

Through A Spyglass

A warily hopeful Pakistan considers life beside a Modi-led India

Apr 21, 2014

| Mariana Baabar

Review

Tale That Only Connects

A novel about Forster details the painful gestation of A Passage To India and the unrequited love at its beating heart

Apr 21, 2014

| Anvar Alikhan
Review

From Malabar To Dutch Galle

Nair brilliantly captures the music of many tongues as she traverses the different terrains.

Apr 21, 2014

| Manjul Bajaj
pollwaltz 2014

Minutiae

It’s election season and authors are busy churning out books to sate the public’s need to understand the Great Indian Political Circus. A selection

Apr 21, 2014

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Last Page

Kalimpong Diary

People still sniff with indignation at Nehru’s remark that the town was a “nest of spies”

Apr 21, 2014

| Kai Friese

Glitterati

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news

Letters

Published feedback from our readers: rants, raves, bouquets, brickbats

10 Questions

Pooja Dhingra

The owner of Le 15 Patisserie and Studio Fifteen Culinary Centre in Mumbai talks about her The Big Book of Treats.

Apr 21, 2014

| Stuti Agarwal
Gossip

Bibliofile

Narendra Modi's poetry, Penguin HQ shifts to Haryana, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowlands, shortlisted for the Orange Prize

Apr 21, 2014

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Mumbai Restaurant

With An Oven-Sized Oomph

Nico Bombay is a worthy addition to Mumbai’s buzzy, busy art and culture district

Apr 21, 2014

| Shabnam Minwalla
The Secret Diary of

Hema Malini

All filmstars keep secret diaries but mine is different. Being a Dream Girl, I use it only when I have dreams.

Apr 21, 2014

| V. Gangadhar
movie review

Main Tera Hero

Gets way too random and hit and miss. Doesn’t feel fresh enough and lacks the vital spark.

Apr 21, 2014

| Namrata Joshi