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Tokyo Cancelled. That ring of finality, of authority, is confined only to the title. What follow are vaguely unsettling tales, spread over c...
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January 09, 2005 00:00 IST
A crossover Shakespearean tale on a distant Indian shore. A midsummer night’s dream with tainted revelry, a threatening tempest. In thi...
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December 26, 2004 00:00 IST
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Sun, Dec 26, 2004Freedom Is a Gentle BreezeSubscriber Only
December 19, 2004 00:00 IST
THE shift in this wind is a gentle one in a genteel world. Though the change at the time of independence can hardly be described as gentle i...
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November 28, 2004 02:28 IST
The moon has barely begun its slow march across the sky but the anticipation of tourists here is already shining through. Cleared by the Sup...
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November 07, 2004 00:00 IST
Decades ago FW Champion’s Camera in Tiger-land and the Jungle in Sunlight and Shadows inspired a generation of hunters to give up the g...
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October 24, 2004 00:00 IST
Small details of routine lives often weave larger stories. Domestic talk dots Zeenuth Futehally’s Zohra, highlighting the predicament o...
Sun, Oct 24, 2004Chronicler of Failed LivesSubscriber Only
October 03, 2004 00:00 IST
A few years of living on the edge can spoil you for life. Suketu Mehta spent two and a half years with Bombay and its desperate clingers ...
Sun, Oct 03, 2004Leaves of LucknowSubscriber Only
September 19, 2004 00:00 IST
If Qurratulain Hyder’s Aag ka Dariya was a wide sweep of the subcontinent’s history, My Temples, Too is a particular moment in tim...
Sun, Sep 19, 2004The steel in the frameSubscriber Only
August 15, 2004 00:00 IST
WHEN Sahdev Vohra joined the Indian Civil Service in 1941, World War II was on. So instead of going to England for his probation, he was sen...
Sun, Aug 15, 2004Vigil over, but void begins…Subscriber Only
August 08, 2004 01:00 IST
Where once there was a bustling town, there is now a silent swamp. In and around it rise bits of coloured concrete. A green wall, a blue one...
Sun, Aug 08, 2004Elephant CensusSubscriber Only
August 08, 2004 00:00 IST
The elephant may have found little space in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species but it has filled much of literature, art and religion in...
Sun, Aug 08, 2004Gladys has just stepped outSubscriber Only
July 25, 2004 01:30 IST
The Staines house in Baripada is yet to shake off its lived-in air. The flower vase is in its place at the centre of a dining table that has...
Sun, Jul 25, 2004Taj SignaturesSubscriber Only
July 18, 2004 01:39 IST
Away from the Taj Mahal’s grandeur that inspires a long queue of tourists on a hot Agra summer day, the northern wall of the monument f...
Sun, Jul 18, 2004Teardrops on the hillSubscriber Only
July 11, 2004 00:00 IST
YEARS before Gujarat became a damning case of state complicity in violence, there was Muzaffarnagar. An incident that was the turning point ...
Sun, Jul 11, 2004India should increase health investment: SachsSubscriber Only
June 19, 2004 00:00 IST
In the stream of endorsements that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appears to have attracted, here’s another. Noted economist Jeffrey Sac...
Sat, Jun 19, 2004Mist in the MountainsSubscriber Only
June 06, 2004 00:00 IST
This one should not be judged by its cover. Cressida’s Bed comes with this introduction: ‘‘An enthralling adventure story of ...
Sun, Jun 06, 2004Dahling ManjulaSubscriber Only
April 11, 2004 00:00 IST
THERE is a tinge of the unexpected in these short stories. But unlike most, Manjula Padmanabhan doesn’t try too hard for that twist in ...
Sun, Apr 11, 2004Jungle JimSubscriber Only
March 14, 2004 00:00 IST
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February 29, 2004 00:00 IST
SOMETIMES too much grief is exasperating, even a bit embarrassing, for those not at the heart of it. Jaishree Misra herself obliquely acknow...
Sun, Feb 29, 2004Remains of the FireSubscriber Only
January 25, 2004 00:00 IST
IF there is any connecting thread between the narratives that run through The Garden of Earthly Delights, it is fire. A fire that fascinates...
Sun, Jan 25, 2004For these kids, internship means getting to know homeSubscriber Only
January 02, 2004 00:00 IST
To the 17 interns at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), everything in India looks familar yet strange. The ...
Fri, Jan 02, 2004Young woman in a hurrySubscriber Only
November 28, 2003 00:00 IST
Alka Lamba, the Congress candidate from the Moti Nagar assembly constituency in Delhi, sees herself as the future. And on an even more optim...
Fri, Nov 28, 2003Plain Tales from the EdgeSubscriber Only
November 23, 2003 00:00 IST
IF there is a common thread in Radhika Jha’s collection of short stories it is the brooding certitude of uncertainty. The location may ...
Sun, Nov 23, 2003Epic comebackSubscriber Only
September 28, 2003 00:00 IST
When Virasat, a folk festival, returned to Dehra Dun after a gap of over four years, it brought home not only national arts and traditions b...
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