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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
Postponing the Punchline
Shovon Chowdhury’s debut novel The Competent Authority has some big funny ideas, but is too long in the telling
04 November 2013
A God’s Slow Descent to Earth
Why Sharad Pawar’s repeated use of his name should get Sachin Tendulkar’s guard up
31 October 2013
People Laughing at Themselves
Ye living under a star sign: throw not stones at someone’s dream of hidden gold
24 October 2013
A Graphic Recollection
A recently published anthology of visual narratives of Partition revisits a haunting part of history with mixed results
18 October 2013
God and Bigg Boss
Neither exists, but both are brought into being by common consensus
17 October 2013
The Fast and the Spurious
Why fasts like Jagan Reddy’s and Chandrababu Naidu’s fail before they begin
10 October 2013
Legal Landscape
Zia Mody’s 10 Judgements That Changed India offers a quick and succinct, if somewhat dry, insight into India’s judicial journey
05 October 2013
The Meditator and His Meditation
On SN Goenka, the Vipassana guru who passed away this week
02 October 2013
Control Freaks
The National Integration Council’s strange unanimity on regulating social media to deal with riots
25 September 2013Authors
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
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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