Sandipan Deb is an IIT-IIM graduate who wandered into journalism after reading a quote from filmmaker George Lucas — “Everyone cage door is open” — and has stayed there (in journalism, not a cage) for the past 19 years. He has written a book on the IITs.
That’s how well we get along, though I plead guilty to being a lapsed reader once too often.
29 December 2009It is hard to forget those who think they can get away with the very worst that humans are capable of.
22 December 2009Moviemakers are blowing up money on stuff that gives me a headache.
15 December 2009Don’t know how high-powered committees think, but some of these poets deserve the honour, surely.
08 December 2009Meet a girl with a tattoo who could haunt you for a long time to come.
01 December 2009He died this month 46 years ago. The assassination was pinned on a crazed gunman, though so many wanted him dead.
24 November 2009How a barely remembered island in the Sunderbans delta links to the chain of events that has led to the Indian State’s woes with Maoists.
18 November 2009That’s what newspapers must start giving as supplements, looking at the state of our country’s politics today.
10 November 2009How does a mediocre writer with recycled plotlines sell 600 million copies across the world?
04 November 2009Tamil Brahmins and brainy diligence go together. Here is why
28 October 2009CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Pratap 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