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Jeff Bezos’ Path to $150 billion

NOTEBOOK
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

PORTRAIT
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

PORTRAIT
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

NOTEBOOK
By Shahina KK

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

Sushma Swaraj: Troll Hunter

PORTRAIT
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

NOTEBOOK
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

PORTRAIT
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

NOTEBOOK
By Lhendup G Bhutia

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

Salman Khan: The Cult of the Superstar

NOTEBOOK
By Madhavankutty Pillai

SALMAN KHAN HAS never been a darling of film critics, but even so, in recent times reviewers have been more

The Incredible Ronaldo

PORTRAIT
By Lhendup G Bhutia

THE BALL HANGS deliciously in the air about four minutes into the game. A cross from Portugal’s Goncalo

Gorkha soldiers stand guard at the meeting venue

Guardians of the Trump-Kim Summit

NOTEBOOK
By Amita Shah

AS GORKHA SOLDIERS stood guard away from the spotlight during the summit held in Singapore between US

Robert De Niro: Raging Bull

PORTRAIT
By Lhendup G Bhutia

THE FIRST RECORDED instance of the word ‘fuck’ in the English language, it appears, occurred sometime in 1528

Jay Panda: His Own Man

PORTRAIT
By Amita Shah

IN JANUARY 1998, the day the Biju Janata Dal (BJD)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance was announced,

When It Comes to the Death Penalty

NOTEBOOK
By Madhavankutty Pillai

WHO DOES LIFE belong to? The answer to this question also decides who gets to take life. In an earlier age,

The Curse of Non-Performing Assets

NOTEBOOK
By Madhavankutty Pillai

A BANKER I am acquainted with, who is the manager of one of the major branches of a PSU bank in a

Tom Wolfe (1931-2018): An American Icon

PORTRAIT
By Nandini Nair

WHO IS A great writer? Someone who sees the future while writing of today? Someone who can coin terms and

Let the E-Commerce War Begin

NOTEBOOK
By Madhavankutty Pillai

JUST A YEAR-and-a-half ago, Sachin Bansal, the founder of Flipkart, was railing against unfair competition

Nobel Not Noble

PORTRAIT
By Nandini Nair

LITERARY EVENTS SELDOM make it to the headlines or prime- time news slots. They remain confined to the last

Infinite Heroes

PORTRAIT
By Lhendup G Bhutia

A CORNUCOPIA OF SPANDEX superheroes has arrived on our cinema screens (and invariably in our social media and

Asaram: The Fall of a Guru

NOTEBOOK
By Madhavankutty Pillai

THE EVOLUTION OF law in civilisation has two major milestones. One is the idea of a formal law itself as a

Ram Kumar: The Last Landscapist

Small World
By Lhendup G Bhutia

BACK IN 1960, the artist MF Husain made a suggestion to Ram Kumar. “One day Husain came to me and said, ‘Let

Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit touches a journalist on her cheek at a press conference in Raj Bhavan, Chennai

Gubernotorious

NOTEBOOK
By Madhavankutty Pillai

BANWARILAL PUROHIT COMES from the good old stock of Indian politicians who nurture a constituency, whose

K Srikanth: Shuttle Service

PORTRAIT
By Lhendup G Bhutia

KIDAMBI SRIKANTH IS in an unchartered territory. Apart from a few other Indian personalities unassociated

Politics Bowls a Bouncer in Chennai

NOTEBOOK
By Madhavankutty Pillai

NO INDIAN CRICKET captain in recent times has been more umbilically tied with Chennai than Mahendra Singh

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