'Welcome To The Year Of The Whores' Yes, the wishes are belated, and the Chinese year of the horse was actually welcomed some days back, but still and all we would be failing in ...
Bermuda in the air The sight of planes and towers in such stark juxtaposition brings back other memories, but that was another tale. This one, a plane that vanished into the...
School’s up The baleful month of December brought in its wake one of the most numbing events of the year, in the ancient city of Peshawar, and no one who consumed this new...
Water cannons The world, and humanity, earned itself a new enemy in 2014. Was it to be called ISIS, or Daesh, recalling a malefic force from Islamic lore? Here, Shi’...
Mote in God’s eye The Damascene neighbourhood of Yarmouk resembles a post-apocalyptic, biblical landscape. The built heritage of one of the world’s oldest cities—and o...
Jump to conclusion As it turned out, the word from animal behaviour specialists was that this was no angry tiger offing a prey. It was the stone-throwing that irked it.
Taurine blue: Almost standing in as a metaphor for political events, where a distant pilgrim came and swept the field before him like a bull in a china shop just weeks ago, ...
Good Sahara Tihar jail was to turn a portion of its premises into an ultra-mod corporate office, hosting negotiations meant to retire a huge debt. Subroto Roy’s fate is ha...
Space ahoy! At the end of Mission Mangalyaan, did they find a Malayali selling tea on the red planet? For, had they not discovered a distant planet called Mars...or was that...
Death by Twitter The strikingly handsome Sunanda Pushkar, whose last day saw a furious spree of tweets full of ill-boding and anger, passed into headlines. Disease, murder, ...
Tree of death A stark image out of a macabre storybook, it was circulated to universal horror in old and new media alike. But after the condemnations stopped coming, the mys...
Hell and high water Kashmir, which has no dearth of tragedies brought about by human agency, was to also witness monster floods in 2014. In other times, it would be seen as ...
Bow deep A photogenic, demonstrative gesture of respect to the ‘temple of democracy’ is what set off his innings. Did the NaMo reality match up? Bhakts and critics close...
Fireworks light the sky above the central square of Rosa Khutor ski resort, a venue of the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.
People welcome the new year swimming in icy waters, during the annual swim in the Lake of Geneva at the Bains des Paquis, in Geneva, Switzerland.
A man takes a holy dip in the sacred pond at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
The first sunrise of 2014. Marina Beach, Chennai.
Fireworks explode at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre over the Victoria Harbor during New Year's Eve to celebrate the start of 2014 in Hong Kong.
I&B Minister Manish Tewari (3rd R) with other officials launching India Calendar 2014 in New Delhi.
