Vegetarians Please Excuse
Run by veteran chef Shankar Krishnamurthy, it's one of the few restaurants in town with a consistently high standard
Bull's Eye
The crisis is not economic. Therefore, fiscal policies to protect globalisation won't suffice. The crisis is moral.
'Work Allocation... It's On Whims And Fancies'
The CIC on the various problems faced in the implementation of the RTI Act.
Billu
Can be watched to kill time, certainly not as a good timepass. The desperate attempt to cash in on SRK's glamour weighs heavy on the film.
Latticed Windows
A tribute to Old Delhi savours our patched social fabric, and rifts that crimp it in crisis
'I'm The Symbol For The Masses'
The Telugu mega star says his party will fight on its own in the state, keeping the option of aligning with a "third force" in the parliamentary polls open.
Bibliofile
Cold feet cost Random House India one of their biggest titles of the year. Find out why Rupa is gutsier than Penguin and why you should never buy a pirated book
Yum Britannia
Despite maudlin moments of NRI bewilderment at India, Kohli leaves us replete—perhaps aware that we've learned something about the nature of Indian-ness
Central Lighting
A lively flame of black humour reinvents the familiar Indian domestic farce, adding depth and pathos
Pardon The Channel Noise
A richly evoked Addis Ababa hosts goodness, unequal twins, political strife—all soaked in methylated spirit
Admit It, The Water's Around You
Are you better off today than in 2004? Prices of many things we take for granted are up, while annual salary increases are a third of those five years ago. It is, for many, the morning after.
'Cost Will Be Felt In The Years Ahead'
The UPA government has to an extent put India's growth prospects at risk feels the ICRIER professor
How A Slips ToB Minus
UPA's well-intentionedefforts make a little difference—but cause &effect mismatch is wide
"Well, I Would Certainly Not Defend Operation Parakram"
The foreign minister in the Vajpayee government is open about the past and expresses his views on the present
The Landscape Just Moved A Bit
The BJP has to adjust to some loss of property—the 'Pak/terror' plank—and refashion itself as a New Right
There Will Be No Blood
A united, progressive alliance against terror: that's Congress strategy for Elections '09