The writer is Associate Editor.

January 14, 2017 01:04 IST
US president Obama’s fine and final oratorial flourish underlines the possible lack of it from his temperamental successor.
Sat, Jan 14, 2017
January 07, 2017 01:26 IST
In Mission Unpluckable, Blabey’s monsters attempt to establish their bona fides by liberating the inmates of a modern, mechanised chicken farm, rattling the cages of a inhumanly consumerist society.
Sat, Jan 07, 2017
January 07, 2017 01:10 IST
Geography lessons would have been fun had they been designed in the manner of this lucid and accessible history of the landmass of South Asia
Sat, Jan 07, 2017
January 02, 2017 00:11 IST
Here is the alphabet for the lexicon of change in India in 2016-17, words that carry within them entire narratives — from the troubled to the trivial.
Mon, Jan 02, 2017
January 01, 2017 00:00 IST
Von Neumann was more conservative, settling for 30 years from the present. But a cut-price, no frills singularity is already creeping up on us, without benefit of mathematics.
Sun, Jan 01, 2017
December 24, 2016 00:14 IST
To appear just before the Budget, the January 24 issue of Forbes will carry an article by chairman and editor-in-chief Steve Forbes headlined ‘What India has Done to its Money is Sickening and Immoral’.
Sat, Dec 24, 2016
December 17, 2016 01:59 IST
This was a surgical strike, in the Indian meaning of the term — an event that was not unprecedented, but was attended by unprecedented publicity this time.
Sat, Dec 17, 2016
December 11, 2016 00:02 IST
If Arthur Conan Doyle’s medical career had not floundered, the world would have never known of Sherlock Holmes.
Sun, Dec 11, 2016
December 10, 2016 00:00 IST
After the hassles of cash in India, there is news of the tumbling casino stocks in the US and Australia; in other news, the big boys of social media agree to share database of hashes of terrorist content.
Sat, Dec 10, 2016
December 03, 2016 00:04 IST
Indian news fogs up further as cinema halls become a domain for display of nationalism, while an amendment enabling the FBI to hack devices poses a serious threat to privacy.
Sat, Dec 03, 2016
November 27, 2016 01:00 IST
The disarming whimsy of Constantia provides a very real backdrop to I Allan Sealy’s iconic Trotter Nama.
Sun, Nov 27, 2016
November 19, 2016 00:36 IST
The settings are located in upper middle class India, and they explore the familiar while keeping an eye out for the unexpected.
Sat, Nov 19, 2016
November 19, 2016 00:24 IST
When you have the public in a full Nelson, to choke up yourself is conspicuous self-indulgence
Sat, Nov 19, 2016
November 13, 2016 00:00 IST
Historic blunders? Universities that ask too many questions? That dratted secularism? It’s all his fault. Nehru did it.
Sun, Nov 13, 2016
November 12, 2016 00:28 IST
That transition was dramatically visible in Stephen Colbert’s show where, among others, Stevie Wonder had come to urge people to vote liberal – as King had been doing on social media.
Sat, Nov 12, 2016
November 05, 2016 01:43 IST
Apparently, this relish-laden phrase was the refrain of an hour-long speech, in the course of which he threatened to give grief to the BBC and CNN via a new independent venture.
Sat, Nov 05, 2016
October 23, 2016 00:09 IST
Is translation an act of surrender or a non-violent Darwinian struggle?
Sun, Oct 23, 2016
October 22, 2016 00:29 IST
The future is here. Yuval Noah Harari tells you what you need to pack for the journey.
Sat, Oct 22, 2016
October 22, 2016 00:28 IST
US presidential debates always gather global eyeballs, but the third grudge match of this years’ campaign must be the first to reach such huge populations over the internet
Sat, Oct 22, 2016
October 15, 2016 01:02 IST
Pakistan’s press has united in a show of solidarity as the government and military are losing face and muscle
Thu, Oct 20, 2016
October 15, 2016 00:51 IST
Even if we exclude those chart-topping yet execrable lyricists who close off their lines with “ooh, yeh”, a red flag indicating that their vocabulary has failed their sense of rhyme, there are many.
Sat, Oct 15, 2016
October 14, 2016 00:17 IST
The Nobel Committee has picked Bob Dylan — a choice probably not as radical as it appears at first glance, though it has shocked purists. Tagore’s Gitanjali was a song book — and it won the Nobel in 1913
Fri, Oct 14, 2016
October 09, 2016 01:00 IST
As privacy increases in value, creative people who prefer to fly under the radar could acquire a special cachet.
Fri, Oct 14, 2016
October 08, 2016 01:37 IST
Piquant writing from the other side prove that not all have gone bananas over the India-Pakistan relations, while the menace of clickbait in newsrooms is ushering in a plea for slow news.
Sat, Oct 08, 2016
October 01, 2016 00:13 IST
The collective and collaborative behaviour of trees, brought to vivid life.
Sat, Oct 01, 2016



