New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Opposition parties, which cornered the Union government in Parliament and on the streets over paper leaks and police lathicharges against protesting students, now face the same re... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- The BJP has not forgiven itself for Jantar Mantar. Somewhere in the party's internal post-mortems, there will be a version of the question every disciplined machine asks after an ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Some books remain with us long after we have turned their final page. Robert Louis Stevenson'sStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydeis one such work. It is first encountered as a p... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Politicians usually do not talk about age or retirement, unless they themselves are young or if they are referring to other people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "margdarshak" mo... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Dear Reader, Texts we have read constitute the libraries in our heads and shape us. Then those libraries direct us towards texts that can be appropriate additions to the archives... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- At first glance,The Sea Has the Answersseems to be a novel set against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement in India. But in Shuma Raha's remarkable telling, the accusations themse... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- On a hot July afternoon, four women walk into a bar. What sounds like the set-up for a joke is the organising principle of Sucheta Dasgupta's debut fiction collection,Ladies' Nigh... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- Dear Reader, Politicians are among the most talkative lot. I have not come across any organisation with a more elaborate communications department or a bigger battery of spokespe... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- When the singer Sanjay Subrahmanyan alerted me to the launch of Pallyezhuchi Paavai Paadagal, an album of 30 songs written by maestro Ilaiyaraaja, I knew that this would be a sign... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- When Dayanand Nene, a well-known BJP and RSS activist from Thane, Maharashtra, led a protest on July 18 against the proposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centre in his city, it ... Read More