The writer is Associate Editor.

August 23, 2015 01:00 IST
Why is an anxiety about household machines physically ganging up not more prevalent in the arts and media?
Sun, Aug 23, 2015
August 22, 2015 00:00 IST
PM Modi’s commitment to making it impossible for the world to ignore India and his government is working, sometimes in unanticipated ways
Sat, Aug 22, 2015
August 15, 2015 00:46 IST
The government banned 857 sites for pornographic content, but their names are of great anthropological interest
Sat, Aug 15, 2015
August 08, 2015 00:47 IST
Prime time news has declared that the Pakistanis are exposing themselves. Where to look now?
Sat, Aug 08, 2015
July 26, 2015 01:00 IST
Apart from the recommended doses of Bulbul Sharma and Valmik Thapar, Aleph is reprinting the classics of Indian ornithology from the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Sun, Jul 26, 2015July 25, 2015 04:29 IST
The UK's Prince Philip should send the British media a bill for all the unpaid royalties of a lifetime, deriving from his attempts at cheeky humour
Sat, Jul 25, 2015
July 18, 2015 02:16 IST
The games in the education ministry are confusing. Is the mind playing games with itself?
Sat, Jul 18, 2015
July 12, 2015 01:00 IST
EL James, a working model illustrating how social media can help hitherto unknown writers make a killing, came a cropper last week in the course of a Twitter stunt.
Sun, Jul 12, 2015
July 11, 2015 00:00 IST
Greece is the south of Europe, the Third World within the First World, forever playing catch-up with its more powerful neighbours.
Sat, Jul 11, 2015
July 11, 2015 00:00 IST
Delhi newspapers reported 15 mysterious deaths. Almost every unusual death is linked to the Vyapam scam; it is reassuring to discover exceptions to the rule.
Sat, Jul 11, 2015
June 28, 2015 01:00 IST
The stack of ages had been cleft, so to speak, exposing a long-forgotten book titled Black Rage. The inscription on the fly-leaf read, “San Francisco, Jan 8, 1969”.
Sun, Jun 28, 2015
June 27, 2015 00:00 IST
International Yoga Day seems to have been something of a success: bureaucrats, clerks did not collapse in a heap of safari suits as anticipated.
Sat, Jun 27, 2015
June 20, 2015 00:00 IST
Twitter has played host to the more colourful parts of the LaMo controvery, where the dramatis personae have been jousting with reporters.
Sat, Jun 20, 2015
June 14, 2015 01:00 IST
People set aside a part of their time for memorialising, in order to share later.
Sun, Jun 14, 2015
June 13, 2015 00:00 IST
The government has become embroiled in a matter beyond its remit — promoting yoga.
Sat, Jun 13, 2015
June 06, 2015 00:00 IST
The Maggi ban invests everyday, unexciting things with the allure of the forbidden.
Sat, Jun 06, 2015
June 06, 2015 00:00 IST
A philosopher in the swim of current affairs, AC Grayling is still trying to make us think rationally.
Sat, Jun 06, 2015
May 31, 2015 01:00 IST
Now, there’s an intelligence out there which can read potato chips.
Sun, May 31, 2015
May 23, 2015 00:13 IST
The longest-serving late night talk show host in America, David Letterman stepped out from behind the desk after 33 years.
Sat, May 23, 2015
May 16, 2015 00:00 IST
Kiran Nagarkar’s play, censored for 17 years, belongs to a fine tradition of retelling the epics subversively.
Sat, May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015 00:00 IST
True or False: Did Rajnikanth give private lessons to Arnab Goswami?
Sat, May 16, 2015
May 09, 2015 00:00 IST
From the coverage of the Nepal earthquake to the reportage of the shooting in Texas, there has been a disturbance in the Force.
Sat, May 09, 2015
May 05, 2015 01:33 IST
The Internet has trumped the act of collating reports from clinics and hospitals and established itself as the faster tool for tracking disease.
Tue, May 05, 2015
May 02, 2015 00:00 IST
If you want to get away from the #tvdebates these days, turn to DD India for a little detox.
Sat, May 02, 2015
May 01, 2015 00:40 IST
2015 is the centenary of the theory of continental drift, the explanation for quakes, including Nepal.
Fri, May 01, 2015



