Watching him from 10 metres away

Seventeen-year-old cartoonist Unni Chacko has jumped off a building. Nobody is able to explain why he did it. The only clues he has left behind are the cartoons and comics he has drawn, which his alcoholic father is trying to decipher. Extracts from Manu Joseph’s new novel

It was good, it was brief

The Olympic Games are largely a poor spectacle sustained by the great hoax of nationalism

Corporate India, despite its disgust with the Government, is not just complicit in the state of the economy but also largely responsible for it

Why is it obscene to accept that a historically wounded people are ready to move on?

…or the story of life’s origins

With Rushdie, the government has again chosen the cowardice of practicality over the courage of morality

The world according to a muscular man

The anti-corruption movement enters the aerobic phase

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…