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Madhavankutty Pillai

Madhavankutty Pillai has no specialisations whatsoever. He is among the last of the generalists. And also Open chief of bureau, Mumbai  

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Books
The Advantages of Failure

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, on underachievement as a good thing

21 February 2014
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Voices
Success Crazy

The strange brouhaha over co-opting Satya Nadella’s achievement

14 February 2014
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Business
The Mindboggling Tax Cut

A radical zero-tax proposal that was first mooted in interior Maharashtra is now a national point of debate

11 February 2014
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Voices
A Thing of Evil Beauty

And yet, lingerie mannequins in Mumbai have a right to life

11 February 2014
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Books
Don’t Step Over This Moral Line

Using intriguing illustrations, Michael Sandel, author of What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, shows how markets are creeping into places they have no business being

01 February 2014
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Voices
A World without Omens

What it foretells when strange things happen to the Pope and no one is unduly worried

30 January 2014
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Voices
Right to a Decent Execution

What the Supreme Court’s guidelines about death-row convicts tell us

23 January 2014
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Voices
Blood on the Tracks

Mumbai’s fatalistic acceptance of suburban railway deaths

16 January 2014
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Voices
Not Just a Moral Question

On the anger prompted by a court’s observation that premarital sex is wrong

11 January 2014
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Living
Drinkers of the Body’s Tonic

The community of people who consume their own urine every morning to boost their immunity

26 December 2013

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

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

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

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

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

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