Hunting Down Naxals; BJP's Invisibility Cloak; Tweet Like Tharoor; MA in Karunanidhi-giri; and Losing the Race on Caste

“Cheerleaders are still new to the Indian public, and there are occasions when they get too excited... our moves have been toned down for the Indian audience”

If you love books and are tired of waiting for them to land in your bookshop, Kindle is your friend

A peek into the storied 226-year-old mansion in central Calcutta that goes by Fairlawn Hotel.

Dylanesque duplicity and how dollar blues drive investors to gold...

Indian citizenship for Sri Lankan refugees; handshake and a boot in West Bengal; Bihar’s bank ban; Kashmir protest; and creating second-class doctors

“I follow a strict rule—I will only massage till the calf. Aaj ki aurat ka koi bharosa nahin... I politely decline if they ask me to go higher than the calves.”

Maharaja’s privy purse; and a pay cut you wouldn’t mind

“Politicians don’t read. They ask others to read to them, often only articles about themselves. I get them the latest political books... I tell them to read at least one page a day”

CPM’s war against the media; A big blow to Naxals; University for the disabled; BJP’s Facebook face-off; and DMK’s poll booty for terrorists

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…