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Stream of New Consciousness: India Joins Online Revolution in Entertainment
02 Sep 2017 - 09 Sep 2017Vol09
Issue35
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The inside Story of How I Lost the Race for the UN Secretary-General's Job in 2006: Shashi Tharoor
15 Oct 2016 - 22 Oct 2016Vol08
Issue43
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Stories in this issue
Where the Sun Don’t Shine
The dark, desolate, gloomy and clearly depressing provide the idyllic setting for a crime. And if the setting is a Nordic country, your dozen dead bodies have found the perfect complement for the…
The Great Big Indian Library
Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women; Sufi Lyrics; The History of Akbar: Volume 1; The Story of Manu; and Sur’s Ocean. Ranging from translations of Bulhe Shah’s Gurmukhi lyrics to the work…
BE WORRIED, VERY WORRIED
After almost every jihadist attack, one hears loud sighs of relief from professional secularists and a section of the commentariat: Indian Muslims are different and they are not for the establishment…
Dynamic, Chaotic, Fragmented and Still Evolving — And Hard to Fight
For the masses to be mobilised, the violence must be seen as justified. That means choosing the ‘lowest common denominator’
Last week in Paris, three men killed 17 people, including several of…
JIHAD AFTER PARIS
The lone wolf has internalised the imperium, and when he pulls the trigger, or draws out the knife, or faces his executioner with the greatness of his god on his lips, he becomes a voluntary slave at…
The Books of Civilisation
The Murty Classical Library of India is a love marriage of delicious elegance between new money and old glory
If the Bharat Ratna has not been utterly debased by political whimsy and point-scoring—…
Satanic Forces
The literary suicide of Perumal Murugan
The novelist is the loneliest of artists, hunched over for years over his desk, constantly at war with his demons, assailed by relentless self doubt,…
The Dera Sacha Sauda chief
The Dera chief has been accused of rape and murder and of ordering the castration of 400 Dera followers
The Indian Censor Board recently refused to clear the film MSG: The Messenger of God which…
Economics decoupled from politics
The political expediency did not mar the cooperation is commendable
The recently concluded state-level summits to woo investment in West Bengal and Gujarat saw the end of a bad practice in politics:…
Ramesh Tawadkar
For declaring that Goa’s government will set up centres to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality
It takes a certain level of regressive conservatism to claim not just that homosexuality is abnormal, but…