CATEGORIES

CONFIDENCE BOOSTER

The launch of the booster shot campaign and new vaccines give hope that the impact of Omicron and the third wave will be less severe than the previous surge

GOA GETS A PARTY OF PARTIES

The TMC’s entry is the big news in the Goa election. Elsewhere, the mix ’n match of state politics continues even as the BJP tries to stave off anti-incumbency

AN UNEASY TRUCE

On December 15, 2021, a long-drawn-out legal battlebetween members of the erstwhile Jaipur royalty came to a close.

DELIGHTING IN THE DETAIL

Her attention to craft has helped actor SHEFALI SHAH become the cynosure of modern entertainment

WANTED: A HEALING TOUCH

After two Covid-battered years and in the midst of assembly elections, the government is likely to attempt a feelgood budget for 2022-23

Q + A “AGE HAS LIBERATED ME”

Actor Lara Dutta Bhupathi is enjoying her day in the ott sun. The comedy Kaun Banegi Shikharwati on Zee5 is already the former Ms Universe’s third web show in two years

A CAMPAIGN WITH BYTE

Leaders savvy and unsavvy, freelance techie gunslingers who do saffron in the morning and socialism by night, the smell of virtual cordite…. India is seeing its first online-only elections. What do the Digital War Rooms of parties look like?

THE POISONED WELL

Ask around in the Digambar Chowk area of Jorhat in Assam about engineering student Niraj Bishnoi and you run up against a strange kind of absence. Many in the neighbourhood did not even know he existed.

JAT PLUS: A CHALLENGE IN THE WEST

After a decade in the wilderness, the Rashtriya Lok Dal and its new chief, Jayant Chaudhary, are back in the reckoning in bastion western UP

A FLYOVER INTO PUNJAB

High sensitivity around identity issues, the spectre of security, a fragmented and fluid political canvas...will all of that converge to the BJP's advantage?

THAT SINKING FEELING

THEATRES

DARK CLOUDS LOOM AGAIN

The Covid Omicron variant once again threatens to cripple most services sector businesses. How deeply the economy will be scarred depends on the level of the health crisis at hand

'Long-endurance submarines pose new challenges'

INTERVIEW

WE THAT ARE YOUNG

Much like the youth of her characters, Sally Rooney’s latest novel is caught in a flux of becoming

DON'T FIGHT THIS FLIGHT

Written by T.J. Newman, a former flight attendant, Falling is a kind of blockbuster hijack drama that keeps you strapped in from the start

UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY

Abir Mukherjee’s sixth novel in the Wyndham-Banerjee series sees him better already good form

DADDY DEAREST

THE NIZAM IN ANEES SALIM’S NOVEL HAS SO MANY CHILDREN THAT THEIR VOICES TOGETHER CREATE A POLYPHONY

WINNING THE RACE

IN HIS RECENTLY RELEASED MEMOIR, KAL PENN TELLS THE STORY OF HOW HE BROKE HOLLYWOOD’S DIVERSITY CEILING

BOOK MARKING 2021

From the return of big names to Covid becoming a literary protagonist, 2021 had something for us all

GAME OF THRONES

Manu S. Pillai throws light on the oft-ignored histories of India’s princely states in False Allies

MY BEST OF 2021 - GAUTAM BHATIA

GAUTAM BHATIA Author, The Wall

MY BEST OF 2021 - GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI

Former diplomat; Author of Refuge

MY BEST OF 2021 - MIRZA WAHEED

MIRZA WAHEED Author, Tell Her Everything

MY BEST OF 2021 - JERRY PINTO

JERRY PINTO Author; translator

SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM

THE STORIES IN THIS SCI-FI ANTHOLOGY MIGHT BE SET IN THE FUTURE, BUT THEIR ROOTS ARE IN THE HERE AND NOW

Sense of an Ending

EVEN AS AMITAVA KUMAR’S NOVEL ASKS IF FICTION HAS A ROLE TO PLAY IN OUR LIVES STILL, HIS WRITING SAYS YES

THE POET WRITES TO THE SAINT

By revisiting the correspondence of Gandhi and Tagore, historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee helps reveal aspects of their personalities we don’t usually see

The Next Labour Revolution

The future of work rests on using technology to understand and improve employees’ experience at work

2022: Hope & Fear

What a difference a month makes. At the start of November, 2021 seemed well on its way from the worst of times which it had showed us in April, to a holiday season of laughter and forgetting. Normalcy, or at least ‘the new normal’, seemed like the catchphrase for the coming new year. That and ‘endemicity.’ And then on November 26, we got something much catchier: Omicron.

Cleaning Up India's Energy Systems

In the fight against climate change, india’s real challenge will not be building infrastructure, but ensuring that even the poorest can pay the cost of this ‘clean’ energy