Adoor Gopalakrishnan
The renowned director on his profile in <i>Time</i> magazine recently, his latest film <i>Shadow Kill</i> and the bankruptcy in mainstream cinema
State Gazette
The railroad inferno; Their canned ads; Left-handed Idyll; The black rain; The summer of justice and Chasing Osama in cyber alleys
The Idea In Repose
Yesterday's obdurate Khalistani is at last returning home—softened, if not chastened
The Couplet of Ruin
Murder of a small-time poetess, the mafia, sex, ministers. Will her killers be caught? <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=50>Updates</a>
America's Darling
US is relieved at the eased pressure on Musharraf <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=9>Updates</a>
Lost Tribes, Reunited
Brajesh Mishra gets tips from American Jews on how to win friends and influence people—the right ones
The Grateful Dead Hymns
How some unclaimed bodies finish their last journey with dignity, and why it's important to help
The Lonely Fern
After a string of political crises, the old 'socialist' has to cohabit with saffron or stand in inglorious isolation
Daughters Of This Country
The individual acting skills of some of the best actresses of the country rescue the film somehow from its average script and direction
Difficult Customer
She was your average girl-next-door till she sent her greedy groom back. Now, she's an exemplar of courage <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=163>Updates</a>
The Delhi-Mumbai Gazette
Qutab Hotel looks forward to better days; Art for cafe's sake; The Bungalow Eight experience; Corporates turn trendy and The avenging angel
Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy.Buy One, Get One Free
When a country ceases to be merely a country and becomes an empire, then the scale of operations changes dramatically. ... I speak as a subject of the American Empire. I speak as a slave who presumes to criticise her king.
Call Her Belle De Jury
Aishwarya Rai makes it to the Cannes jury. Can she help bring in the business? <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=130>Updates</a>
Bull's Eye
Richard Armitage visited Delhi and Brajesh Mishra visited Washington. So will America solve our problems? Here is the way things seem. The government ...
Indiagenous
There is little coherence in this ransacking of Indian social history, but the sample is interesting.
The Ego In Slow Dissolve
A tremendous tribute to the epiphanic power of art, its potential to represent complex existential truths.
The Courtesan, Laid Up
Mother Goddess Calcutta dissected yet again, with a fair bit of titbittery thrown in
Artful Confessions
As the Centre makes it official—that a temple predated Babri Masjid—the heat on the ASI can only increase <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=37>Updates</a>
'Things Proceed Till Next Roadblock'
The IT and Communications Minister talks on controversial issues: telecom, disinvestment and the Media Lab spat. Full text.
