The Full-Time Ailing Woman
Heroines whose main activity is to remain ill and dutiful
16 August 2018
Didi is singing alone this time
As Mamata Banerjee rides a wave of triumphalism, Sohini Chattopadhyay in West Bengal says all is not as funny as the Trinamool leader’s limericks
24 April 2014
A Family of Fine Taste
An unlettered carpet merchant and art dealer in Amritsar chanced upon the Pahari school of painting. His son keeps the legacy going with his prized collection of traditional painting, sculpture and textiles
17 April 2014
The Young Man and the City
Celebrated Bengali novelist Sankar’s Thackeray Mansion offers a mosaic of the peoples and cultures that make up Calcutta
01 April 2014
Buddha’s Orphans
The article Buddha's Orphans has been adjudged the best entry at the 2014 International Committee for the Red Cross and Press Institute of India award for humanitarian reporting
27 February 2014
Love in the Time of HIV
When Najaraus met Maitri, she was an HIV-positive widow, and he an AIDS awareness worker. Nine years later, with a little grit and a little fib, they are married, living together, still in love—and Najaraus is still HIV-negative
17 February 2014
Pallu, Pleat, Power
On the sari as a message of competence, maturity, professionalism and a new cosmopolitanism
26 December 2013
100 Years of Karim’s
The rise and rise of Karimuddin’s unusual business idea
07 September 2012
“I love solitude but I don’t need it to write”
The poet, lyricist and adman says advertising has helped his poetry
16 July 2012
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
MJ Akbar is an MP and the author of, most recently, Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah’s IslamWhile
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