In Between Epic And Eternity
Here in Mumbai, when Faezeh Jalali presents Shikhandi: The story of In-Betweens, the story becomes a brisk, pinching satire about punishing times, then and now.
‘World No. 1 No Big Deal, Only Performance Matters’
Kidambi Srikanth in an exclusive interview to Outlook on winning individual silver at the Commonwealth Games, and tougher challenges ahead this year.
Passing Shot At The Summit
Srikanth climbs atop the badminton heap. True grit bears fruit. Doggedness will keep him there.
For That Whiff Of Chlorine
The US-led missile assault on Syria was based on dubious information. India should be wary of such pious, dangerous outbursts.
Till Messiah Come, Again
The greatest care-giver, the Mahatma, sacrificed himself to keep the nation sane. His sacrifice stopped the madness temporarily, but the cure is still eluding us.
The Subcontinental Menu
Newfound benefits of meat of an ass; a yagya for victory in the 2019 assembly elections; a waqfnama by Shah Jahan. Read all the juicy gossip here...
The Beneficial Distributaries
Cauvery may have been the stated cause but DMK has a more mundane agenda: increase its Delta votes
His Flaws Were Borrowed From The Epics
Bhutto’s character traits, his late political life as PM, his controversial death...all that is brillianty lit in this biography, but it’s silent on his deleterious role in the 1971 crisis
‘Impeachment Of CJI Is Nonsensical. Don’t Encourage The Idea’.
Eminent jurist and former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee on impeachment motion against the CJI, the unprecedented press-conference by the four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court, and the rights of the CJI as 'master of the roster'.
Mystic Accountant
An excerpt from academic and author Sunil Khilnani’s bestselling 2016 book Incarnations: India in 50 Lives.
Vachana Versus Vachana
Theology and politics? Questions of self-definition roil Lingayat country ahead of polls.
Default Sinkholes
The regulatory tool seeking to minimise damage from the menace of mounting NPAs was given new teeth, but it will be a long and hard road to recovery
Saved, Yet Shamed
India trims the annual increase of HIV/AIDS cases by 57 per cent since 2000. But social stigma lives on.
‘What A Waste Of Mud And Filth They Will Leave Behind Them’
In the wake of independence in the 20th century, civil war, ethnic cleansing and some of history’s most terrible genocides, took place.
Corned Beef And Roasted Pork
Post 1857, the British insisted on identifying Indians as two: Hindus, Muslims. Those imagined communities have become part of our mental fabric.
‘Not Sick, We’re Intoxicated, It Is Like A Heroin High Of Hatred’
Social activist Harsh Mander on Kathua rape case, solidarity with the minorities, and on becoming a society that is 'intoxicated'.
The Thesaurus Of Unloving
In the brutalities that the Bakarwal child suffered till she died, we need to see the battle of hate against the moral emptiness of democracy
Raptors Of Hatred
An eight-year-old girl’s gory end took J&K’s ruling coalition to the brink and back