CATEGORIES

Enter The Apple Shift

Apple orchards are taking over the paddy fields of Kashmir. There’s promise and a fear.

'My Whole Career Has Been Built Upon Rejection, But I Never Give Up'

National award-winning director Hansal Mehta talks about this happy, hectic time, the joys of film-ma­king and working with actors such as Kangana Ranaut and Rajkummar Rao.

Mundra: The Port of No Call

Neither the state govt nor the Centre, neither the UPA nor the NDA, has acted again st Adani Port's depredations.

The Suns of This Soil

“We have learned to ignore what people say,” says 10-year-old Gurnail Kaur.

Sports For Poor And Rich!

Why some sports attract champions from the poor, while others largely remain with the rich

Harappan Ships Go Up Mountains

A callous anachronism has ruled Bollywood costume and set design. Exemplars exist, but no one learns.

Cries In Twilight Hours

A sense of filial abandonment stalks and steers the life of the heroine and provides the framework for this novel set in a brutal apartheid South Africa.

This Song Is Our Song

When a media mogul attempted to hide away the song of Tamil Nadu’s Mahakavi, it sparked a movement.

Reign Again, Mahanati

A new biopic on Savitri hopes to do justice to her legacy.

Lessons, At School And In Life

A day in the life of a quiet 11-year-old state school student, who loves nothing more than drawing life in colour on paper.

Shoot Me With A Slogun

If politics is in our blood, the slogan is the pulse. Its rhythms aren’t partisan : they create a community of words.

Karti And Friends

The Congress in Tamil Nadu looks to benefit from a solid alliance, just like it did before in past polls

What Drives The Party Workers? Stories From Around India

A journey through the electoral battle at its most fascinating and vicious— where the foot soldiers fight it out

SGT University Where Aspirations Meet Reality

SGT University is a pioneer in its focus on providing industry aligned futuristic education at par with the best in the world.

Celluloid Closure For A Waiting Cult

Finally, a Mani Ratnam film to add to the cult of Kalki’s stupendous episodic novel.

Two Extremes

As Fani cuts a ruinous swathe across Odisha, patches of barrenness blot India. The misery has been cannily hidden in this season of high politics.

Break-Up In Telugu

TO the average Andhraite, the 2014 bifurcation of the state united by the Telugu language took away more than the Charminar of Hyderabad.

Aaphill Drive

Kejriwal toils to climb a mountain in Punjab, Haryana. BJP, Congress work to bring Delhi CM down.

Wonky Bridge - Don't Cross

It’s an Indo-Pak measure to build confidence. But cross-LoC trade has been snowed under much distrust.

Rummy Cricket

Ace, king, jack...you select all of them and score the winning run too. But is not gambling?

Playing With Fire

The BJP could pay a heavy electoral price for forcing the citizenship bill on a reluct ant Northeast

This MP Just Had A Bad Air Day!

How Osmanabad’s Shiv Sena MP benefits from the controversies surrounding him.

Colonial Coat Tails In Feudal Fabric

Thoroughly liveried, the judge comes across as a maharaja. A time-warp cloaks Indian judiciary’s etiquette.

Rani & Rogues

The contrast between the way the police dealt with protests by Dalits in UP’s Saharanpur and Rajputs in Rajasthan is part of a pattern of selective aggression and selective silence that goes deep and wide.

What's To Be Done With Our Cops?

With the world’s largest force, India is not short of police personnel. Free them from provincial satraps, and much of our policing troubles will end.

The Slow Aarohan Of A Morning Raga

Finally, Rahul Gandhi’s anointment as Congress chief is imminent. Sights set on 2019, his task is to enliven the party.

A Maritime Arc Of Saptaswaras

Young Carnatic musicians, born or living in the US, are shifting base to Chennai as full-time performers

Birth Of A New Hindu Nation

It can’t be without reason that the RSS now says a mandir alone will come up at the disputed site. The Sangh has been carving a Hindu India since ’92.

Disposing Of A Sanitary Fad?

Indian women are warming towards a movement that seeks the return of traditional menstrual car.

Amarnath Killings: Identify Politics Of Murder And Mayhem

Mehbooba Mufti comes closer to the BJP as Kashmir battles another crisis —the killing of Amarnath yatris