For a writer whose first book was a travelogue around small-town India, Pankaj Mishra seems strangely unwilling to engage with the complexities, or provincialities, of the United States.
Ankur Rahman, along with his brother Rodin and their friend, Akhup Khom, decided to walk from Tezpur in Assam to Sela Pass in Arunachal Pradesh—a good 340 km away. Asked why, Ankur’s answer is “Why not?”
One day in her teens, a man who she treated like her father tried to rape her. She escaped, but the next day, she looked him in the eye and made him apologise. This suddenly changed the power equation
When she realised she was checking Twitter before brushing her teeth in the morning, Atreyee Majumder figured she had to sober up. Especially if she wanted to finish her PhD thesis in this lifetime
Vodafone has scored a legal victory over India’s tax authorities, but what’s worth asking is this: why do ‘capital gains’ bear a lighter tax burden than your salary?
An Old Delhi neighbourhood full of highly skilled craftspeople struggles to survive, to keep some fragment of its poetry in a city whose priorities are far more prosaic.
It’s commonplace to talk about the “wrong side of 40”. Sometimes in jest, but often the jest only a thin masquerade for our fear of ageing. But these age-defying ‘superachievers’ would vigorously disagree
An argument with Hrithik Roshan, the monsoon cycle that set up the perfect backdrop for the climax, and other adventures on director Karan Malhotra’s sets
The multiple exploits of a journalist who has held up a mirror to the media in several ways
20Game Over • The Missing Couple • Knife Play
19Cynical Congressmen and supine litfest organisers script a dangerous farce
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