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Self-taught Indian American musician Vijay Iyer is wowing the world today. But he started playing the piano only to annoy his sister.

It is low on money, officers, equipment and strategic vision. It just does not seem to have what it takes to fight a war—and win.

A Telugu novel, honoured by the Sahitya Akademi, has both the literati and Hindu rightwing worked up over its ‘pornographic’ depiction of Draupadi.

There’s nothing like the music of a man with nothing much to prove anymore to himself or the world.

The Government, says Ghandy, needs to replace its self-righteous ‘development’ rhetoric with concrete action on the environment.

A professor in the US takes up the cause of a terror detainee of Pakistani origin who, she says, is guilty only of being a Muslim and a critic of US policies.

Didn’t get that full scholarship from MIT? Chill. You can attend the class for free.

The world’s once mighty car hub is now a rusty relic. A desperate Detroit is wooing Hollywood and turning to agriculture for survival.

Open speculates on what the prospective suitors for MGM might do with the studio’s money-spinning Bond franchise.

Why has one of our most gifted film directors sunk to such depths?

It’s easy to blame what went awry on an antiquated model of marriage, yet those who married for love don’t seem to have fared any better.

Lahore, the big, fat, privileged cultural and artistic capital of Pakistan, is running to seed.