The writer is Associate Editor.

October 01, 2016 00:10 IST
Writing of the ongoing confrontation between India and Pakistan has exposed shades of media jingoism to the extent that the unthinkable will soon be credible.
Sat, Oct 01, 2016
September 25, 2016 01:08 IST
Edward Albee might not have liked the headlines that marked his recent passing.
Sun, Sep 25, 2016
September 24, 2016 01:03 IST
India dallied dangerously close with war as electronic warriors with a hazy idea of war rallied social media and demanded immediate first strike
Sat, Sep 24, 2016September 17, 2016 01:54 IST
The book would interest entrepreneurs on the make, being incubated in campuses all over India, but there is also general interest in this increasingly competitive sector
Sat, Sep 17, 2016
September 11, 2016 00:15 IST
No matter what happens to the rail budget, the romance of the Indian Railways lives on in Kipling’s work.
Sun, Sep 11, 2016
September 10, 2016 00:03 IST
Farmers kept unlikely souvenirs after Rahul Gandhi’s khat sabha, and in Pakistan “excessive” Indian programming takes a backseat.
Sat, Sep 10, 2016
September 03, 2016 00:19 IST
Multitudes of private citizens have been urging Udit Raj to have his head examined, following his revelation of Usain Bolt’s winning diet —beef twice a day.
Sat, Sep 03, 2016
September 03, 2016 00:08 IST
Talking about the elephant in the room — mental illnesses in the family
Sat, Sep 03, 2016
August 28, 2016 00:33 IST
While Pompeii and Herculaneum have dominated disaster tourism in Italy, Stabiae could have been forgotten but for Pliny the Younger’s letters.
Sun, Aug 28, 2016
August 27, 2016 00:22 IST
Women legally gain entry into the sanctum of Mumbai’s Haji Ali Dargah, while the regulation for surrogacy is on anvil.
Sat, Aug 27, 2016
August 22, 2016 00:56 IST
A satellite launched by China last week is focused on the quantum property of ‘entanglement’ — what Einstein called ‘spooky action at a distance’. How will it boost ongoing research on photon pairs?
Mon, Aug 22, 2016
August 20, 2016 01:08 IST
The crushing disappointment of the prime minister's address on Independence day was salvaged by an AIB video that ripped on the past, present and future.
Sat, Aug 20, 2016
July 31, 2016 00:06 IST
If you had read Karim Miské’s police procedural, would you have been surprised by the terror in France?
Sun, Jul 31, 2016
July 30, 2016 01:50 IST
Following a few setbacks, such as batting for the losing side on JNU, and doing a poodle-tame interview of the Prime Minister, has Arnab Goswami finally become that malevolent clown?
Wed, Nov 02, 2016
July 28, 2016 15:45 IST
Mahasweta Devi won the Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith awards for literary excellence, while the Ramon Magsaysay award and the Padma Vibhushan also recognised the political import of her work, both as writer and activist.
Thu, Jul 28, 2016
July 23, 2016 03:49 IST
A deceptively light introduction to Big Data, where artificial intelligence does the heavy thinking
Sat, Jul 23, 2016
July 23, 2016 03:12 IST
While revealing India’s talents, sights, recipes and casual bizarreness, smartphone cameras also draw attention to the flourishing gamut of gratuitous violence in the land of ahimsa
Sat, Jul 23, 2016
July 16, 2016 00:40 IST
In South Africa, the prime minister channels the Mahatma in a profound black-and-white moment. Meanwhile, back home, nationalism has acquired 50 shades of grey
Sat, Jul 16, 2016
July 11, 2016 19:31 IST
The science behind the survival of the fittest and a mystery story in reverse
Mon, Jul 11, 2016
July 10, 2016 00:00 IST
Alfred Assollant’s creation, Captain Corcoran, finally reaches Indian bookstores, 159 years after the character landed on our shores.
Sun, Jul 10, 2016
July 02, 2016 01:07 IST
The dust has more or less settled on the tête-à-tête between Arnab Goswami and the prime minister, but it takes more to kill free media
Sat, Jul 02, 2016
June 25, 2016 01:32 IST
Merry England has probably spent the latter part of the week glued to their tellies — the stakes were high and the isle’s infamous weather was dreadful. But what of the outcome?
Sat, Jun 25, 2016June 25, 2016 00:35 IST
Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, The Cat and Shakespeare and Collected Stories were introduced by the poet and translator R Parthasarathy.
Sat, Jun 25, 2016
June 19, 2016 00:01 IST
James Pattersons’s BookShots plays with narratives and shrinkwraps them into nuggets of pacy plots.
Sun, Jun 19, 2016
June 11, 2016 00:54 IST
As the US and India engage deeper diplomatically, the warts are revealed to be surprisingly similar
Sat, Jun 11, 2016



