Nagpur Oranges Are The Only Fruit
Modi is caught in the pincer of a paradox—his RSS-fed hankering for a Hindu rashtra and his own modern technocratism. Where will his balancing act lead India?
The Em Space Widens
Mobile wallets are the new big players in the transactions push. And it’s clicking.
“I Think Writers Have Woken Up To The Serious Dangers To The Polity”
Kiran Nagarkar, one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India, on the current atmosphere and its political underpinnings.
‘My Throat, Unable To Speak, Will Die’
Across the world, down the ages, regimes of all colours have throttled dissenting voices
When India’s Like A Closed Book
Uday Prakash, the first writer to forsake his Akademi award, rues the shrunk world he inhabits
Bring Out The Brushes: Tug Of War Over A Tin Of Tar
Mumbai—under siege from the Shiv Sena’s puerile jingoism—is no longer a cosmopolitan safe haven. The BJP-Sena spat over recent events is only a new eyesore.
The Pensmiths Inflict The Deepest Cuts
The writers’ stand is forcing the government to sit up and take notice, even if it acts nonchalant
The Howl Anthology
In the end, there is The Word.... It falls upon writers to floatan ark of reason in the flood of intolerance in Modi-led India.
‘Many Don’t Want Children From The N-E’
Maneka Gandhi, Union minister for women & child development, on the controversy generated by the decision of Missionaries of Charity to stop facilitating the adoption.
Blue-Bordered Saris—Mothers Who Give A House
The Missionaries of Charity, while following the new rules, will continue to run its adoption centres. But a deep unease blankets all.
Charred Wick In The Alcove
The iconic Smita Patil would have been 60 this week. A new biography traces her life, her untimely death and her glorious, meteoric career. Excerpts.
Nationalism, Made In China
For the Prime Minister’s pet project, a record-breaking statue of Sardar Patel, his ‘Make in India’ initiative gets the short shrift
Needed, Minister With An MA, Not An MP
The institutional tripod of the State has become an unstablearrangement on two legs. Articles 75(5) and 164(4) must go.
Lose The Rubbers
It was as if Sushma decided, one fine day, that condoms weren’t working as a mitigation tool against AIDS.
Give Us Our Pixel Screens
A prudish I&B plans to restrict condom ads on TV, but will it defeat the purpose?
A Bihar Mirror, For An Indian Reflection
Not caste, pro-development youth will be a factor in the Bihar vote
‘BJP Alone Will Win 120 Seats In Bihar’
BJP president Amit Shah who is possibly facing his toughest political test on the Bihar Elections.
Why I Love To Hate Outlook
I am truly tired of reading about the same cycle of politics and the same ministers; why are we giving them so much importance?
Recommendations
The Tata Mumbai Literature Festival, the Delhi International Arts Festival and boiling the perfect egg.
Take The Food Mile Sprint
There is a multi-billion-dollar weight-loss industry preying on a simple fact—fear and confusion about what to eat.
Some Lives Are Thrillers
Forsyth’s real life story is more thrilling than any yarn he ever spun for us!
Treadle Press, Good For All
Gita Press, <i>Kalyan</i>, and its editor Hanuman Prasad Poddar moulded Hindu politics and its pet concerns
Calcutta Diary
Just like the ‘Railway Mutton Curry’ of yore, it is difficult to get the authentic dhaba chicken any more.
