Patiala Portions
The recently opened Hyderabad branch of this Delhi restaurant underlines the perils of over-extending your brand
Bull's Eye
The CM herself need never oppose caste-based reservation. OBC leaders themselves will do it. The deadlock will compel them.
Rabbi Shergil
The semi-Sufi, semi-folksy urban balladeer's new album <i>Avengi Ja Nahin</i> has been released
Bronze Age Booming
Across a fractious India, identity battles are being waged figuratively. Statues are at war.
Whose Test Tube Babies?
A bill to let government scientists patent their work raises questions of propriety
25:17...Path Of The Righteous Man
In Kerala, the spectre of atheist evil from the godless Communists. The Opposition is full of glee.
Dasavathaaram
This prosthetic torture ... It's like a 'casting couch' gone berserk. Imagine going to sleep with yourself and waking up to gift yourself one more role.
The Many Petals Of A Riddle
The ruling BJP gets mixed up in its MLA's private loss. The mystery deepens.
Amazing Grace
She recalls Edwardian London and the Blitz. Kodaikanal-based Grace Wardell, Fleet Street's first woman editor, has turned 100.
'It's A Global Pact With Sovereign India'
The new international nuclear regime to accommodate India, the French ambassador says, is not focussed exclusively on the Indo-US nuclear deal
So, Big Deal
The nuclear deal lies haze-wrapped. Rural India just tries to cope with a price rise squeezing dry its resources with its whimsies.
One Man On An Island
He made an epoch in '91. But in seeking to do so again, the PM is walking himself-and his party-onto a shaky plank.
The Privileged Self
Alive to the debates of the day, averse to extremes. She's a historian... and the PM's daughter.
Bibliofile
How are their book launch parties versus ours? What's the exotic value of a signature in a vernacular script? And why is Shobhaa De's latest not flying off the shelves?
Cutting Edge
An <i>English, August</i> for IIM-wallahs. Unlike Chetan Bhagat, Bajaj writes good English. This debut novel is pacy, unpretentious, and great fun to read.
Trace Of Wilde
An exploration of the versatility of a free-thinking oddball who rescued 19th-century Calcutta from its drudgery
Hold That Hammer
The Rise of the Rest seems to have hijacked the new American century. Zakaria tells the US what to do.
Student Alert
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