Philip Pullman’s is perhaps the most important novel yet of the still-young century. It’s a grand tragedy about two brothers—Jesus and Christ.

Ideas whose time has come. Let’s see them in IPL4.

It took just one visit to Kabul to appreciate what we take so much for granted.

Sport must make space for anger against injustice and the vagaries of fate.

It’s that one and only in the night sky that inspires us in ways nothing else does.

Why did Kanu Sanyal, the very first Naxalite, take his own life? Ill health? Despair? Or was he making a final statement? The most profound of all.

Tim Burton’s Alice is wonderfully greater than the sum of its parts.

Computers can send a man to the moon, but it takes humans to marvel at the truly marvellous.

There are times you just have to wonder. How much freedom do we give our teenagers?

How will today’s children learn to live in their own world when all they read about are heroes who have magical powers to fight evil forces?

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…