Dilip Bobb is Group Editor, Features & Special Projects. Before joining the Indian Express, he had a long stint with India Today news magazine, being a key member of the launch team. He has covered politics, foreign affairs, defence and current events, among other topics, but also established the magazine's stylebook. His assignments have taken him to war zones like Afghanistan and Tamil Tiger-held Sri Lanka apart from covering two Olympic Games and important domestic events, from the Emergency to the Shah Commission and the assassination of Indira Gandhi, as well as historic turning points like Rajiv Gandhi's visit to China. In between, there were pleasant diversions into Bollywood and haute cuisine and haute couture, but its the journalistic hotspots that remain defining moments. Currently assigned to another hotspot, the features pages at the Financial Express.
August 18, 2013 05:47 IST
Yet,independence is also based on dependance,as in there would be no heroes without villains.
Sun, Aug 18, 2013August 11, 2013 05:43 IST
Take a tour of Indias Parliamentwhen its members are not indulging in mayhemand history,as the cliché goes,exudes from the walls. That is largely because the portraits that line the stately corridors are of prominent Indians who made history or were part of it. Actually,Parliamentwhen it is functioningalso has people who deserve to be preserved for posterity for various reasons. Here are some prominent examples.
Sun, Aug 11, 2013August 04, 2013 01:38 IST
It seems everybody with a joystick and an axe to grind is into playing games these days. The market is currently flooded with games for adults that are really kicking up a storm. Here are the seasons best sellers.
Sun, Aug 04, 2013July 28, 2013 05:29 IST
Individuals and issues that are making and faking news
Sun, Jul 28, 2013July 21, 2013 04:01 IST
Individuals and issues that are making and faking news
Sun, Jul 21, 2013July 07, 2013 04:56 IST
Individuals and issues that are making and faking news
Sun, Jul 07, 2013July 06, 2013 03:12 IST
Why Nelson Mandelas legacy is especially resonant today
Sat, Jul 06, 2013June 30, 2013 05:36 IST
Individuals and issues that are making and faking news
Sun, Jun 30, 2013June 29, 2013 03:43 IST
How the past echoes through present-day Afghanistan
Sat, Jun 29, 2013June 16, 2013 05:41 IST
Individuals and issues that are making and faking news
Sun, Jun 16, 2013June 09, 2013 02:20 IST
Individuals and issues that are making and faking news
Sun, Jun 09, 2013June 02, 2013 00:20 IST
Individuals and issues that are making and faking news
Sun, Jun 02, 2013May 25, 2013 03:51 IST
An ambitious novel about the fragility of family life told through immigrants striving to live the American dream
Sat, May 25, 2013May 19, 2013 00:37 IST
Individuals and issues that are making and faking news
Sun, May 19, 2013May 11, 2013 02:18 IST
Forty years on,Watergate is still the reference point for scandal
Sat, May 11, 2013May 04, 2013 00:41 IST
Wading through sex,lies and videos in Goa
Sat, May 04, 2013April 21, 2013 01:26 IST
Venice is a treat for those who enjoy history,Art and Getting lost in narrow passages.
Sun, Apr 21, 2013April 20, 2013 01:06 IST
On the importance of delayed actions and reactions
Sat, Apr 20, 2013March 09, 2013 02:45 IST
James Bond meets Ram Gopal Varma as Manil Suri closes off his trilogy
Sat, Mar 09, 2013March 03, 2013 07:26 IST
Dilip Bobb goes skiing in Gulmarg,and learns to take the highs with the lows.
Sun, Mar 03, 2013October 13, 2012 03:32 IST
Political and social tensions of Turkey come to light through the story of a family and a dwarf in Orhan Pamuks early book Silent House
Sat, Oct 13, 2012October 13, 2012 02:28 IST
The videos success shows how traditional North-South patterns of cultural exchange are being upended
Sat, Oct 13, 2012September 08, 2012 00:16 IST
Ian McEwan pulls off a love story amid the cultural cold war between the West and the Soviets
Sat, Sep 08, 2012September 01, 2012 22:46 IST
A fascinating,if fictionalised,account of Proby Cautley,the forgotten Englishman who made the Ganges Canal
Sat, Sep 01, 2012June 30, 2012 01:23 IST
Cricket becomes a metaphor for courage in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
Sat, Jun 30, 2012