Kangana Ranaut: Queen Regnant

• PORTRAIT
• By Lhendup G Bhutia

THERE IS A CLICHÉ—content is king—that almost every Bollywood personality spouts, but nobody really believes

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George Fernandes (1930-2019): The Death of a Relentless Rebel

• NOTEBOOK
• By PR Ramesh

DURING THE EMERGENCY, George Fernandes (1930-2019) used to refer to Indira Gandhi as “that woman”. It was in

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Kamala Harris: The Contender

• PORTRAIT
• By Lhendup G Bhutia

WE DON’T KNOW the extent to which sexism played a role in the 2016 US presidential vote. We cannot tell if

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Shivakumara Swami (1907-2019): The Seer With a Social Conscience

• NOTEBOOK
• By Amita Shah

IN THE LATE 50s, for students of Siddaganga Mutt school in Karnataka’s Tumkur district, the day began at 5.30

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The Egg Came First

• PORTRAIT
• By Nandini Nair

HOW CAN ONE not be happy for the egg? An egg is a truly wonderful thing, and early this week all the universe

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NaMonetisation

• NOTEBOOK
• By Moinak Mitra

FROM A FACTORY in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, James Silvesten churns out thousands of customised T-shirts each month

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Alok Verma: Come and Gone

• NOTEBOOK
• By Siddharth Singh

IN A ROLLER COASTER series of decisions, a committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the leader of

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Alfonso Cuarón: The Romantic

• PORTRAIT
• By Lhendup G Bhutia

ONE OF THE earliest teasers of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma came out sometime last year. One sequence had a camera

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Mrinal Sen (1923-2018): Auteur Socialist

• PORTRAIT
• By Lhendup G Bhutia

THERE IS LITTLE doubt over how Satyajit Ray towered over Bengali and Indian cinema. Hailed as one of the

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Sheikh Hasina Prevails

• NOTEBOOK
• By Siddharth Singh

AFTER MONTHS OF bitter campaigning and violence, the atmosphere among journalists at the Bangladesh Election

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Banking on the Governor

• NOTEBOOK
• By Siddharth Singh

THE ‘CLINTON-GREENSPAN’ mix is a fable of intermediate macroeconomics classes in many American universities.

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Vijay Mallya: Bad Times

• PORTRAIT
• By Madhavankutty Pillai

ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER the extradition of Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland

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Double Malt

• PORTRAIT
• By Lhendup G Bhutia

IN AN OLD TV ad, a young son guzzles half a glass of Horlicks and runs out to catch his school bus. Standard

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The Beginning of the Middleman’s End

• NOTEBOOK
• By Siddharth Singh

THE EXTRADITION FROM Dubai of Christian James Michel, the alleged middleman in the infamous AgustaWestland

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Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018): End of the Last Tango

• PORTRAIT
• By Lhendup G Bhutia

WE MIGHT AS well get it out of the way—that notorious episode in Bernardo Bertolucci’s filmography when

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The Kartarpur Conundrum

• NOTEBOOK
• By Siddharth Singh

IF PEACE BETWEEN India and Pakistan could be attained by digging up soil, then what transpired in Narowal

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The Credibility Crisis of Mark Zuckerberg

• PORTRAIT
• By Lhendup G Bhutia

WE HAVE BEEN told countless times how Facebook is not like other companies. That it is not so much a profit-

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To the Brink and Back

• NOTEBOOK
• By Siddharth Singh

WHEN THE MARATHON meeting of the central board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ended on November 19th, it

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Stan Lee (1922-2018): Such a Marvel

• PORTRAIT
• By Lhendup G Bhutia

WHEN ONE NEEDS to appraise the work of a novelist, we often take a bifocal view of the author. One is the

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The Rise and Fall of Binny Bansal

• NOTEBOOK
• By Lhendup G Bhutia

WHEN JEFF BEZOS came to India in 2014, he chose to announce his arrival with an unusually theatrical flair.

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