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Ostentatious Obligations

An austerity bill by a luxury biker has few rich takers desperate to splurge.

It's the Economy, Cupid

The spectre of China ought to be dispelled by the prospect of business.

The Coming Caste Wars

The growing clamour for reservation to society's shrinking ability to fulfil the dreams globalisation unleashes

To Put Faith in Secularism

‘Secularism’ inhabits twin strands—one simply strives to control religion; another, more composite view, allows plural views on faith to coexist. Charting secularism’s progress in France and the US, Charles Taylor alights on the passionate debate it is generating in modern Europe and India.

Caste and Faith in the Dalit Mirror

Four activists and scholars with different religious identities take stock of what has changed for India’s ‘untouchables’ and what remains the same.

Global Is Beautiful

The World Cup epitomises football at its very best—a unifying force in a world too often fighting against itself

Both Gold & Glitter

Messi and Neymar: two sides of football stardom, but their core lights the same way

To Beard A Boyar In Muscovy

A bickering world, quite rightly, gets Russia, the commonest bete noire, as host of its cup of life. Ah, but we mustn’t cavil. It might turn out to be fun after all.

Gali Gali Football Shootball

Following matches through radio static to plugging in—Indian fans have been steadfast as ever. But has the dazzle of European soccer held us in enthralled stupor?

Waiting for Mr Parrikar

The long absence of the CM and two key ministers has created a peculiar situation in Goa politics

Lay Of The Lost

Missing key to a temple storehouse opens a Pandora’s box

How To Grab The Key To Wealth Creation

Smartly balancing today’s and tomorrow’s requirements with the help of a sound financial plan holds the key to creating ample wealth for future needs.

Eat In And Keep The Taxman Away

GST has been largely neutral or beneficial for consumers, but ‘luxuries’ are a bone of contention.

RK Films Was Born With Raj Kapoor And Died With Him

Ranbir Kapoor is one of the biggest stars outside of the Khanate ruled by the Aamir-Salman-Shahrukh triptych in Bollywood. But his last few movies have not set the cashbox ringing at the box office, the ultimate arbiter of an artiste’s worth over a weekend in a cut-throat film industry. The 35-year-old actor now returns with a biopic on Sanjay Dutt made by a filmmaker with the Midas touch, Rajkumar Hirani, who has never failed in the past 15 years. In a freewheeling interview with Giridhar Jha, barely a few days before the release of Sanju, Ranbir discusses, among other things, the most challenging role in his career and why he does not want to spoil the legacy of R.K. Films by reviving the iconic banner founded by his legendary grandfather Raj Kapoor. Excerpts from the interview:

Anchor, Old Man And The Sea

After Arnab Goswami’s resignation from Times Now, a storm of what-next rumours.

Smog Capital Of The World: Delhi

What’s with the air in Delhi that a festival of lights plunged it into darkness? Can we read the signal in the smog?

Modi's Trump Card: Demonetisation

Demonetisation is a dramatic Modistroke. And well-timed too, ahead of crucial polls.

Clueless In Cash Country

Outside urban india, it is largely hard cash that has currency.

Loose Screws In The Tata Wheels

Behind Cyrus Mistry’s booting out was his doggedly independent action, and Ratan tata’s intolerance of it.

Teotwawki: Okay If We Confirm That Tomorrow?

What if the science of prediction is a fictive process and nothing more? Is the future, then, even if loosely knowable, specifically unpredictable?

'Muslim Ban', Donald Trump's First Batch Of Executive Order

Trump is living up to poll rhetoric. More Muslims may find America a mirage.

Congress vs 'Congress'

The spotlight in the Uttarakhand duel is on the CM and those who quit his party.

Jaitleyspeak: Jai Infra Jai Agri

Bracketed between demonetisation and GST, Jaitley finds an occasion to quietly focus his lens on rural India. Shoring up the fundamentals there may need more big ideas, though.

Too Many Players In El Dorado

When Hollywood studios entered the Indian film market, they were being touted as the game­changers. Now, they are planning to quit the game they couldn’t quite comprehend.

‘We Don't Need Nudges And Pushes'

Ahmed Moh­amed, Maldives’ ambassador to India, talks about the crisis and the best possible way to defuse it

No Sermon Of Serenity At Arch Of Terror

Fidayeen attacks are on the rise in J&K. Many feel the Centre can be less hard in its take on militancy.

From Bud To Flower

BJP’s foray into poll-bound Tripura baffles the ruling Left and dwarfs Congress

A Line Of Control For Women

Ankit Saxena’s murder and khap killings over a woman’s free choice expose society’s anxiety about its property rights

An Old-Fashioned Take On Love

Moving on from the world of face-to-face interaction and the letter-writing ritual, relationships leave behind the power and poetics of memory

Marriage Is A Box Of Chocolates

Conjugal life will never stop throwing curveballs at you. You’ll enjoy some and barely tolerate others as you learn to become adults together.