Madhavankutty Pillai has no specialisations whatsoever. He is among the last of the generalists. And also Open chief of bureau, Mumbai
Making sense of the hype over Tendulkar’s last Test
On the nature of current court cases against Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s new movie
On Ram Gopal Varma’s propensity to leech on his own earlier movies
Why humiliation is no big deal for politicians like the repeatedly humiliated Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi
Shovon Chowdhury’s debut novel The Competent Authority has some big funny ideas, but is too long in the telling
Why Sharad Pawar’s repeated use of his name should get Sachin Tendulkar’s guard up
Ye living under a star sign: throw not stones at someone’s dream of hidden gold
A recently published anthology of visual narratives of Partition revisits a haunting part of history with mixed results
Neither exists, but both are brought into being by common consensus
The unusual filmmakers of Ladakh
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…
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma 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
Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.
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