Mike McCleary’s scores for Shanghai and Shaitaan spotlight the work of a man who barely understands Hindi and usually works blind, without a script
02 July 2012Our growing waistlines mean the equivalent of 242 million extra people on Earth
25 June 2012As the Amul moppet in her polka-dotted frock turns 50, the story of her journey as an advertising icon
25 June 2012Amid pauses longer than his answers, the superstar with a conscience responds to criticisms of his new TV show and talks about measuring success by the number of hearts he touches
17 June 2012The peculiar real estate crisis that Indian minorities face in burying their dead
26 May 2012An ‘evil’ mall is coming up on this iconic street in Kolkata that is considered the world’s largest second-hand book market
17 May 2012This photographer started taking black-and-white portraits of commuters on local Mumbai trains 18 months ago. An exhibition and a book later, he still can’t stop
06 May 2012Built in 1907, this graveyard contains ashes of Japanese traders and sex workers
16 April 2012Tandoori versus asado. To visiting Argentinean polo players, taken out for lunch by Open, it’s a no-contest
16 April 2012CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle