The Whispering Conscience of Nitish Kumar
In the end, there was only one man left to play the morality script in Bihar
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…and now Pakistan wants to cleanse its airwaves of vulgar alien (read: Indian) influences.
Naked Power
Picture a woman cornered and a bevy of men gloating at her discomfiture. And now ask what it would take to
In Greed We Trust
A meditation on why we Indians constantly sniff each other for clues of status, much like dogs in a park to
The Power of Fiction
If the Jesus story is mostly a fabrication, it could yet let me outdo Dan Brown.
Did Jesus Exist?
Lateral thinking, lateral questions—occasioned by a book I chanced upon during a Mediterranean holiday.
The Statistical Pursuit of Happiness
Amartya Sen and others have convinced France that measuring the joy of a nation is as important as
Looking It in the Eye
It’s in the final moments of life that character shines through. Lisa Ray just let us glimpse hers.
The Elephant in the Room
Being an accidental ambassador is probably hard no matter where you’re from, but I believe India makes it
Oh, for a Book to Ban!
‘Satanic Verses’ was banned 20 years ago. In all the navel-gazing contemporary Indian fiction, where’s the
A Girl Called Meera
Meera’s story challenges the hypocrisies of the liberal-minded swish set in exactly the same way as Rakhi
My Name Is Khan, Too
Unlike the majority of Muslims for whom travelling has become an intimidating prospect, Shah Rukh Khan at
An Incurable Shyness
Why does a simple thing like wearing a hospital mask or sunglasses or sleeveless vests make us feel so
Free to Be
India’s gift to me is that she doesn’t get in the way of my freedom to be, she allows me the space to show
Making a Shikhandi of Jaswant’s Jinnah
The unceremonious expulsion of this last survivor of the Vajpayee era smacks of a BJP desperate to shirk the
Why the BJP Loves Jinnah
What’s with the BJP’s obsession with Jinnah? First LK Advani and now Jaswant Singh have gone out on a limb to