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Starry-Eyed At The House Of Reels

The big screen. Up there dreams are built and spilt, lives are lived, loved and lost and all of us are along for the ride.

Pathankot Attack: Would The Army Have Handled It Better?

Did the NSA’s ‘civilian’ NSG botch up the Pathankot operation? Would the army have handled it better? With the NSG out of its depth, the army was called in to deliver the final punch.

Kitchen Confidential: Five Star Experience At Home

Bring the five-star experience home. Gourmet savants are now bringing their business to the family kitchen.

Koramangala: The Startup Universe

Bandra of Bangalore, GK-I of Delhi, that’s Koramangala. This is startup universe, the hub of ideas, inspiration and all the action.

A Clowning Glory: An Alternative Healing Method

A few doctors are bringing an alternative healing method to town.

Feel the Bern Yet?

In Donald Trump season, here comes a wildcard: a plodding, avowed socialist!

Narendra Modi, Stuck In Abraham's Triangle!

Modi is caught between a military alliance and crucial oil diplomacy in West Asia.

Arvind Kejriwal's Jack-In-The-Box Street Cred Intact, A Year Down

A year down, a battle-scarred Arvind Kejriwal survives, with his jack-in-the-box street cred intact.

Divide And Rue

The mob is suddenly everywhere: not just on the streets, but on the TV, in our minds. Is this a rebirth of the nation, or is something going horribly wrong?

Divided They Pinprick

The BJP ought to be pinned down to the ground. Yet the Opposition watches, and waits

His Other Chariot Is An Alpha Romeo 8C

Classic motors are a sight to behold, and more Indians are in their hopeless thrall than ever

Can Modi Sarkar Pass The Great Urban IQ Test?

It began with a scintillating vision—urban utopias going by the spiffy name ‘Smart Cities’. But is the focus all wrong? Is the model elitist? Many questions abound.

Vijay Mallya- Politicians Who Backed Him

Mallya cadged loans and hedged around law with help from politicians.

Ghosts In Bengal Have New Admirers Now

Ghosts in Bengal were literary or underground. They’ve new admirers now.

Is The Congress, BJP Without The Lotus?

Is the Congress nothing but the BJP without the Lotus? Despite holding the secular of saffron banner, time and again it has faced the soft Hindutva charge. Such as now.

Four Shades Of Irony, One Of Fury

The Purusha Sukta glibly drops the four varnas on Hindus. Lit by a holy rage and unwavering in scholarship, Ambedkar exploded the very purity of the chaturvarna.

The Classic Caste Confrontation Over Water

It was the classic caste confrontation—over water. Eighty-nine years ago, Ambedkar led a group of Dalits to drink water from this lake in Mahad.

No Thing As Geneteic Merit

Sangh arguments for only economic quota are specious. Actually, the private sector must pass on its privileges. 

Where Crackdowns Are As Common As The Azadi Chant!

Where crackdowns are as common as the azadi chant, what is different about police action at NIT Srinagar?

Why The World's Biggest Movie Star Can't Speak On Indo-Pak Peace?

It's a shame that a superstar can't talk of Indo-Pak peace

From China, With Love

Chinese smartphones offering the price-conscious India a fascinating new range of products right now

Cures That Make A Big Killing

People exploded in anger at Bengal’s notoriously coercive hospitals. Now, a new law will take them on.

The Valley's New Curriculum

Girl students pelting stones at the police in the heart of Srinagar marks a shift in the Kashmir unrest’s visual profile 

Is There A Future For AAP?

AAP was not just another party. It came not as a regional force or a lobby—it deigned to be a universal alternative to everything. If the promise is fading, it must examine the mirror, not just the EVM. 

Stone Tools In Modern History

There is now a problem bigger than militants on India’s hands: protests beyond the separatists’ control

Kashmir On The Brink, But Nowhere To Go

As ordinary Kashmiris take over the fight on angry streets, Pakistan sits back and fine-tunes its new policy

Fraud Of The Fairness Dream

In a country not comfortable with its own genes, fairness creams sell a lie to pander to a deep-seated self-loathing

Alia Bhatt: A Rare Star Who Can Laugh At Herself

Alia Bhatt's gamine charm cradles talent and the nous of self-deprecation.

Arundhati Roy: 'I See gender As A Spectrum...'

Dont beat em, join em. That's the cooperative thinking among craft brewers who work together to ensure one anothers success. In fostering a spirit of collaboration, they've created a powerful bloc that is showing steady growth and challenging established beer giants. It's a lucrative model - one that other producers of artisan or locally sourced goods would be wise to follow.

A Realist Takes On An Illusionist

Nitish has delivered results for everyone to see. But Modi's patter holds some pull.