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Ian Buruma: Only Echoes Allowed

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By Madhavankutty Pillai

IN 2010, WHEN THE US-BASED Foreign Policy magazine included writer Ian Buruma in its list of Top 100 Global

Nambi Narayanan: Justice for a Scientist

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By Ullekh NP

SPACE SCIENTIST Nambi Narayanan is waiting for the compensation that the Supreme Court recently ordered that

Tim Cook launches Apple Watch Series 4 in Cupertino, California on 12 September

iHealth

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By Lhendup G Bhutia

THE APPLE WATCH, for all its success, ever since its release and across its various iterations, has been a

The Shadow of the Great Recession

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By Madhavankutty Pillai

HAVING BEEN ASKED by the Parliamentary Estimates Committee to give his views on the never- ending problem of

Justice Gogoi: An Honorable Man

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By Madhavankutty Pillai

IN JANUARY THIS year, four of the senior-most judges of the Supreme Court did an unprecedented press

People celebrate in Delhi after the Section 377 judgment

My Body. My Choice. My Freedom

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By Nandini Nair

WE HAVE A NEW date to celebrate, not of Independence, but of Freedom. September 6th, 2018. The Supreme Court

Take Off

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By Lhendup G Bhutia

A LITTLE OVER FOUR years ago, a pizzeria in Mumbai uploaded a video showing a drone dropping off a pizza.

The Arrest of Ultra Leftist Activists

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By Siddharth Singh

SOME DESCRIBED IT as close as one can get to a midnight knock. In a swoop across four states of the country,

Djoker to Enigma

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By Aditya Iyer

FOR THE LAST couple of years, the most captivating storyline in tennis – in a perverse, fascinated-by-

Trial By Fire for Smokers

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By Madhavankutty Pillai

ON SEPTEMBER 1ST, cigarette packets in India will have brand new horrific images of what tobacco can do to

Somnath Chatterjee (1929-2018): The Lone Communist

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By Lhendup G Bhutia

IN THE END, when Somnath Chatterjee’s body was taken around Kolkata—from the hospital where he died to his

Will Ikea Change Our Shopping Habit?

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By Madhavankutty Pillai

IN AN ONLINE video of the opening of Ikea’s first Indian store in Hyderabad on August 9th, you can see a

Harley’s Angels Lite

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By Lhendup G Bhutia

IT IS GOING to be half a century next year since Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, long-haired and wild-eyed,

A Catch-4000000 Situation in Assam

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By Siddharth Singh

SIGNED WITH MUCH fanfare in 1985, the Assam Accord promised to restore peace in the then turbulent state. For

Hello Sabrina

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By Lhendup G Bhutia

GRAPHIC NOVELS HAVE been at the edge of literary consideration for a long time. Cultural tastemakers hemmed

Imran Khan: Captain Pakistan

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By Madhavankutty Pillai

AS IT TURNED out, the just-concluded general election in Pakistan was somewhat like the country itself—

Jeff Bezos’ Path to $150 billion

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By Madhavankutty Pillai

JEFF BEZOS HAS just become the richest man in recorded history with his wealth crossing $150 billion. In

The Indian Lynch Mob

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By Lhendup G Bhutia

‘In a crowd… a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilisation. Isolated, he may be a cultivated

Michael Ondaatje: A Traveller Without Maps

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By Nandini Nair

THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Michael Ondaatje recently won the Golden Man Booker Prize, which celebrates five

Peelandi, the tusker that has been renamed Chandrasekharan

The Elephant in the Room

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By Shahina KK

ACCORDING TO THE website of the Kerala Forest and Wildlife Department, there are 702 captive elephants

Sushma Swaraj: Troll Hunter

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By Madhavankutty Pillai

IT TAKES ALL types—moderates and bigots, socialists and capitalists, progressives and conservatives, corrupt

One of the 11 bodies found at a home in Burari, Delhi, on July 1

Faith and the Death of a Family

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By Lhendup G Bhutia

IT WAS LATE in the evening on Sunday when Sanjay Mahapatra was finally let through. The animal welfare

Haley’s Path

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By Lhendup G Bhutia

IT IS INTERESTING to see the manner in which Nikki Haley and the last big Indian-American name in American

The Video Referee Is At Play

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By Lhendup G Bhutia

ABOUT 15 MINUTES before the final bell, long after Lionel Messi’s exquisite goal and the Nigerian equaliser,

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