A Tipsy-Turvy State
There are few quite like the merry men of Communist Kerala. From a group’s 27-year crusade for senior citizens’ right to subsidised alcohol to others who shoot off indignant SMSes if a liquor shop delays opening its shutters by even five minutes, Soutik Biswas records the desperation of the Malayali alcoholic.
01 September 2010
A State Gone to Seed
A collection of essays fails to shed new light on an old topic. The focus is on Pakistan, not on the great divide
17 June 2009
A War’s Best Gift
Afghanistan has a cricket team. As it aspires to enter the World Cup, a journalist remembers his encounters with players and how they learnt the sport
06 June 2009
Authors
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
Makarand R Paranjape, director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is the author of ‘JNU: Nationalism and India’s Uncivil Wars’. Views are personal.
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