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cover story

A Short Walk To Bogtown

Is Ajit Doval, the PM’s eyes and ears, turning the PMO blind and deaf to reality?

Jan 18, 2016

| Uttam Sengupta Bula Devi Meetu Jain
interview

‘There Is No Turf War’

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on India's response to the Pathankot attack and its future preparedness to deal with terrorism.

Jan 18, 2016

| Meetu Jain
cover story

Growing Doubts Over The Doval Doctrine

Eighteen months after Ajit K. Doval became India’s fifth NSA, his doctrine—aggressive diplomacy coupled with faster overt and covert response to attacks—is put to question

Jan 18, 2016

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cover story

The NSA To Beat All NSAs Thus Far...

Brajesh Mishra would have been a hard act to follow. But Doval seems to be doing a pretty fine job of it.

Jan 18, 2016

| Pranay Sharma
Opinion

Cordon Control

NSA Doval is being attacked for not being status-quoist

Jan 18, 2016

| Nitin A. Gokhale
cover story

Skivvies & Fatigues

Did the NSA’s ‘civilian’ NSG botch up the Pathankot operation? Would the army have handled it better?

Jan 18, 2016

| Chander Suta Dogra
Opinion

Knotted Gordian And Gory

Pathankot has put another obstacle in the way of peace initiatives between India and Pakistan and prudence is the only remedy in sight

Jan 18, 2016

| Ayesha Siddiqa

Leader Comment

Seeing Through The Haze

Arvind Kejriwal’s bold move should convince cynics and sceptics everywhere that ‘We, the People’ are instruments, not impediments...

Jan 18, 2016

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bullet trains

Riding A Dum Dum Dream

A bullet train project is a showpiece of progress. But with a railways gasping for funds, it’s wasteful expenditure too.

Jan 18, 2016

| Arindam Mukherjee
- “Another Corridor Should Have Been Chosen”
national emblem

32 Spokes Of Wisdom

Our national symbol, the Ashoka pillar, has an upper chakra missing. An MP pointed it out to Nehru, but was ignored.

Jan 18, 2016

| Dola Mitra

the chef

Kitchen Confidential

Bring the five-star experience home. Gourmet savants are now bringing their business to the family kitchen.

Jan 18, 2016

| Siddhartha Mishra Aheli Basu
The Shine

At The Helm Of A Sisterhood

A banker channels disillusionment, creates economic refuge for the marginalised

Jan 18, 2016

| Bula Devi
Eat, Pray, Live

And Also

A 400-year-old South African snack

Jan 18, 2016

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Leader Comment

In Praise Of Justice Lodha

For giving us the pleasure of re-imagining cricket the way we have not been able to these past few years.

Jan 18, 2016

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interview

“The Legislature Must Bring BCCI Under RTI”

Justice R.M. Lodha who is now looking after the tainted BCCI on why cricketing fiefdoms should be demolished and why betting should be legalised.

Jan 18, 2016

| Ushinor Majumdar
the tallest score

Carrying His Mind Through

Pranav Dhanavade’s 1,009 is Olympian. He has it to inspire him to scale maturer heights.

Jan 18, 2016

| Prachi Pinglay-Plumber

extract

Chronicle Of A Debacle Foretold

The war with China was one that the army was not allowed to fight by its own people. The defeat was pretty much invited.

Jan 18, 2016

| Shiv Kunal Verma
- ‘Who Didn't Warn Nehru?’

film

Where's My Girl?

Kannada thriller by techie brothers sets B-O on fire

Jan 18, 2016

| Ajay Sukumaran
The Review

And Also

The trailer of an adult comedy with over two million likes on Youtube

Jan 18, 2016

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10 Questions

Sambhaji Bhagat

Folk artist and Dalit bard Sambhaji Bhagat composed the music for the award-winning Marathi film Court.

Jan 18, 2016

| Siddhartha Mishra
Gossip

Bibliofile

The Crime Writers Festival in Delhi and Priya Ramnani's move to Juggernaut

Jan 18, 2016

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Column

Biztro

Business in bitesizes

Jan 18, 2016

| Lola Nayar Arindam Mukherjee Dola Mitra Arushi Bedi
The Insider

Deep Throat

A regular column on the essential buzz

Jan 18, 2016

| Dola Mitra Pritam Sengupta Dilip Bobb Uttam Sengupta Prachi Pinglay-Plumber Bula Devi
Last Page

Florence Diary

Each wrong turn leads to a new treasure, an unexpected trove of beauty, an unseen lot of sculptures.

Jan 18, 2016

| Suresh Menon
Par Avion

A random sample from the British periodicals

Jan 18, 2016

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Eat, Pray, Live

Goa Restaurant: Thalassa

Serves the best Greek meal east of Mykonos.

Jan 18, 2016

| Anvar Alikhan
Review

The Tale Of A Chastised Tiger

Ruskin Bond's meanderings through the hills and valleys of Dehra and various encounters with animals.

Jan 18, 2016

| Anjana Basu
Review

Clearer Than The Mike

Impeccable legwork, sensitivity are the hallmarks of Barkha Dutt’s career

Jan 18, 2016

| Dileep Padgaonkar
Happenings

Seven Days

The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt

Jan 18, 2016

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The Review

Nenu Sailaja

It is a combo of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and Dil Chahta Hai

Jan 18, 2016

| Madhavi Tata
The Review

Har Har Byomkesh

Well-made but doesn’t stand out from the crowd of Byomkesh films.

Jan 18, 2016

| Dola Mitra
The Sked

The blessing of magazines dedicated solely to creative arts, the Delhi Litfest and a printmaker’s journey from drawing to textile

Jan 18, 2016

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Glitterati

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