New Year 2016 Issue
S Prasannarajan • Swapan Dasgupta • Srinath Raghavan • PR Ramesh • Madhavankutty Pillai • Ullekh NP • Siddharth Singh • James Astill • Lhendup G Bhutia • V Shoba • Charmy Harikrishnan • Bibek Debroy • Upamanyu Chatterjee
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04 Jan, 2016
New Year Issue: Editor’s Note ~ S Prasannarajan
A celebration of storytelling
Being a Conservative ~ Swapan Dasgupta
Reconciling the eternal India with the changing India
Reading the Lives of Others ~ by Srinath Raghavan
The intimate pleasures of biography
India Through Slogans ~ by PR Ramesh
The political art of mesmerising the mass mind with minimum usage of words
DNA Is Destiny ~ by Madhavankutty Pillai
A genetic history of Indian ancestry
The Learning Curve ~ by Ullekh NP
Can BHU be redeemed as the university turns 100?
A Political History of Hygiene ~ by Siddharth Singh
Imagining Clean India from Gandhi’s ashram
Out of Africa ~ by James Astill
The romance of being a foreign correspondent
The First Indian ~ by Lhendup G Bhutia
Who are we? A question as old as 74,000 years
A Portrait of Gokarna ~ by V Shoba
Sun, sand and other nourishments for the senses and the spirit on Om Beach
The Ultimate Souvenir ~ by Charmy Harikrishnan
The art and alchemy of the magic mirror from Kerala
The Mahabharata Moment ~ by Bibek Debroy
An epic meditation on being and everythingness
Three-Seven-Seven And the Blue Gay Gene ~ by Upamanyu Chatterjee
“The case history of 377 is gripping; it reflects what we have thought about morality over the last 150 years. If you ask me, it really is time to move on, turn the page”
More Columns
Adventures with Materials Maria Louis
Past Continuous Nandini Nair
‘Theatre Is Questions. Theatre Is Debate’ Antara Raghavan