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Pratik Kanjilal
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Intolerable IntoleranceSubscriber Only
November 28, 2015 00:45 IST
But despair not, we remain a healthy democracy prepared to debate anything, even our commitment to the Constitution. Who said it was a given?
Sat, Nov 28, 2015
In fact: Theories of Genius, how they live on in our livesSubscriber Only
November 27, 2015 00:00 IST
The Einstein Field Equations, which ended the age of Newtonian physics and changed our perception of reality, are a century old this week, dating from Einstein’s lecture at the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Fri, Nov 27, 2015
Breaking down news: And the Past was HistorySubscriber Only
November 21, 2015 01:15 IST
The indefatigable HS Phoolka, who continues to fight for the victims of the 1984 Congress pogrom in Delhi, was scheduled to deliver a counterstrike to the party’s celebrations of Indira Gandhi’s birth anniversary.
Sat, Nov 21, 2015
The circle game: An overview of Indian politicsSubscriber Only
November 15, 2015 00:00 IST
As Bihar has ably demonstrated, anarchists, cows, corrupt politicians, loudmouth babajis, trishuls and rays of hope return as regularly as the seasons to Indian politics.
Sun, Nov 15, 2015
Breaking Down News: Home and AwaySubscriber Only
November 14, 2015 00:00 IST
In the Narendra Modi era, the foreign news is at least as interesting as domestic affairs, where the culture wars continue to excite if not edify.
Sat, Nov 14, 2015
Bihar Polls: When talking heads jumped the gunSubscriber Only
November 09, 2015 00:00 IST
At 8.15 am, BJP president Amit Shah was proclaimed a strategic genius. Two hours later, he had to be cast on the dust-heap of history as a peddler of divisive claptrap.
Mon, Nov 09, 2015
Breaking Down News: Coming to you live from Dalal StreetSubscriber Only
November 07, 2015 00:00 IST
Why do TV channels bother with exit polls when markets are usually the most sensitive weather-vanes of the election season?
Sat, Nov 07, 2015
Future Library will open its door to the readers in the year 2114
November 01, 2015 01:00 IST
An art project in Oslo draws attention to the fact that all of literature is one big, juicy time capsule.
Sun, Nov 01, 2015
Breaking down news: Where Were You That Day?Subscriber Only
October 31, 2015 00:45 IST
Since public memory does not extend beyond the last 60 minutes, it is quite safe to accuse anyone of anything at all in the last decade.
Fri, Dec 25, 2015
Breaking Down News: The Pen Is MightierSubscriber Only
October 24, 2015 00:35 IST
In a TV debate where a variety of autochthonous writers were ranged against BJP talking heads, and one RSS thinking head — reason won
Sat, Oct 24, 2015
The Culture of Impunity: The Sahitya Akademi crisis has exposed a leadership failure
October 18, 2015 01:00 IST
The existential crisis of the Sahitya Akademi is a reminder that creative institutions should be headed by practitioners who command respect for their creative work, not their prowess in politics or administration.
Sun, Oct 18, 2015
Written in the Genes
October 10, 2015 00:11 IST
Gene sequencing will be to the 21st century what the stethoscope was to the 20th. A new book explores its multiple ethical issues
Sat, Oct 10, 2015
Breaking Down news: Who’s Rosogolla Is It, Anyway?Subscriber Only
October 10, 2015 00:02 IST
Year on year, the prices of lentils has doubled and has outstripped prices of animal proteins.
Sat, Oct 10, 2015
Book Review: In the Court of the Ranee of Jhansi And Other Travels in India
October 04, 2015 00:00 IST
An Australian gentleman’s travels and accounts of life in northern India during the Rising of 1857 make for lively social history
Sun, Oct 04, 2015
Breaking Down News: “Like” Peace, Make WarSubscriber Only
October 03, 2015 00:00 IST
While PM Modi brought a tear to every Indian’s eye by promoting ahimsa on Facebook, it’d be wonderful if it rubbed off on his colleagues at home.
Sat, Oct 03, 2015
The scribe who came in from the cold
September 26, 2015 00:59 IST
Foreign correspondent and author Frederick Forsyth has chosen to be irresponsible by going behind the story in journalism in his memoir.
Sat, Sep 26, 2015
Breaking Down News: The Dhokla DialoguesSubscriber Only
September 26, 2015 00:57 IST
In a week of big speculations, the India-Pakistan process pursues Modi to NYC and a ‘dangerous vegetable’ explodes in the face of a TV channel.
Sat, Sep 26, 2015
Why Chiki Sarkar goes electronic in new publishing ventureSubscriber Only
September 23, 2015 00:03 IST
Chiki Sarkar, who had quit Penguin Random House as publisher in spring amidst some turmoil, is back in the reckoning with her own publishing house, Juggernaut.
Fri, Oct 07, 2016
Gut Symmetries: Are we what we eat?
September 20, 2015 01:00 IST
Are we what we eat, and could our inexplicable psychoses be food-related?
Sun, Sep 20, 2015
The Bose Papers: Dead uncertainSubscriber Only
September 16, 2015 15:52 IST
So long as Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose lives in the popular imagination, he cannot possibly die.
Fri, Oct 07, 2016
Readers, Digest
September 12, 2015 06:03 IST
A love song to the gastro-intestinal tract, as readable as a Lonely Planet guide to the innards
Sat, Sep 12, 2015
Breaking Down News: Not Quiet on the Eastern FrontSubscriber Only
September 12, 2015 03:20 IST
The Bihar election promises to be a prizefight and Dipankar Gupta has a prescription for political scientists: “If you want to understand politics, don’t talk to politicians”
Sat, Sep 12, 2015
The author has left the building: Terry Pratchett died as he had lived, on his own terms
September 06, 2015 01:00 IST
The Discworld has finally spun down, with Terry Pratchett’s 41st and last novel, The Shepherd’s Crown, out in the UK and US. It was released six months after tweets from Pratchett’s account announced his death.
Sun, Sep 06, 2015
Looking East and Linking West
September 05, 2015 03:30 IST
This neat checkerboard brings wonderful clarity if you plan to sell weapons to people, or menace people with weapons, the principal executive actions of geopolitics.
Sat, Sep 05, 2015
Breaking Down News: All in the FamilySubscriber Only
August 29, 2015 00:44 IST
Several former and serving Amazon staffers have responded to the story, insisting that they were perfectly comfortable there.
Sat, Aug 29, 2015Journalism of Courage
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