The writer is Associate Editor.

August 09, 2014 02:22 IST
The city is a big, noisy place, and what began as a single-volume anthology has burgeoned into two.
Sat, Aug 09, 2014
July 27, 2014 01:00 IST
Rupa Rainlight has reissued The Lonely Tiger (1960), the solitary book of Hugh Allen, David Davidar’s favourite shikar writer.
Wed, Sep 17, 2014July 26, 2014 04:35 IST
From airstrikes to airplane tragedies, newsrooms are inviting experts, if only to thram them.
Sat, Jul 26, 2014July 19, 2014 00:18 IST
When media goofs up, it looks silly but real life blunders can be in deadly earnest.
Sat, Jul 19, 2014
July 13, 2014 01:00 IST
Harris Irfan’s Heaven's Bankers (Constable & Robinson) is the first inside job on the rather opaque world of Islamic, Sharia-compliant finance.
Wed, Sep 17, 2014July 12, 2014 02:06 IST
Housewives wanted stable market prices as always, one of them thought of the kitchens of the poor.
Sat, Jul 12, 2014
July 05, 2014 03:12 IST
High frequency trading should be illegal, believes Michael Lewis. Ironically, it was born out of market regulation
Sat, Jul 05, 2014July 05, 2014 01:16 IST
In which Modi speaks English, Sai Baba is declared Muslim and Tapas Pal becomes world infamous in India.
Sat, Jul 05, 2014
June 29, 2014 01:00 IST
All nationalist projects use selective readings of the past to justify current popular prejudices.
Sun, Jun 29, 2014June 28, 2014 02:21 IST
There’s nothing exclusively human about humour any more.
Sat, Jun 28, 2014
June 23, 2014 00:31 IST
Why most Indians are likely to shrug off government attempts to impose Hindi.
Mon, Jun 23, 2014June 21, 2014 00:29 IST
In which the football World Cup threatens to eclipse the biggest stories but is thwarted by the ISIS crisis
Sat, Jun 21, 2014
June 15, 2014 01:00 IST
The woman who used Sanskrit as the key to understanding ancient India rationally and scientifically.
Sun, Jun 15, 2014June 14, 2014 04:42 IST
An IB report about NGOs can bring out the best in print journalism and the worst on the airwaves.
Sat, Jun 14, 2014June 07, 2014 01:44 IST
Political parties are yet to understand that personal security has become a zero-tolerance issue.
Sat, Jun 07, 2014May 31, 2014 01:52 IST
Just a week in office and they start announcing crowd-pleasing decisions.
Sat, May 31, 2014
May 25, 2014 00:56 IST
If you want to arrive at an impossibly simplified account of Indianness, just hit rewind.
Sun, May 25, 2014May 24, 2014 00:05 IST
If gambling were legal, speculation over ministry allocation on TV could have generated huge revenues.
Fri, May 23, 2014May 17, 2014 05:12 IST
And elsewhere, all smiles, the Congress will still take no questions.
Sat, May 17, 2014
May 11, 2014 00:05 IST
Remembering Marguerite Duras, a filmmaker who made poetry visible.
Sun, May 11, 2014May 10, 2014 00:24 IST
Varanasi looks like a Mahabharata set as the battle between Modi and Kejriwal plays out.
Sat, May 10, 2014
April 27, 2014 04:29 IST
The epitaphs of the Spoon River Anthology pioneered a new way of doing subaltern literature, much before the term was coined.
Sun, Apr 27, 2014April 25, 2014 23:58 IST
TV just had to cover the huge roadshow in Varanasi as Modi travelled to the collectorate.
Fri, Apr 25, 2014
April 13, 2014 00:02 IST
As an anthropologist, Graeber looked at material that economists usually do not, such as the history of cultures.
Sat, Apr 12, 2014April 12, 2014 01:02 IST
The ‘powerful conjunction’ between the horoscopes of Modi and BJP has raised a megawave in the media.
Sat, Apr 12, 2014


