Smokin’ Hot Sheila
Farah Khan has the country tripping on a Bollywood number with a difference: an item girl who hints at onanism and has hearts throbbing all the more for it
16 December 2010
A Gentile’s Quest
Howard Jacobson’s Man Booker Prize winner is a searing search for Jewish identity
21 October 2010
The Pursuit of Heroic Masculinity
The women in Rajinikanth’s films are always fated to be tamed and put in their place by the man. The fan loves that.
06 October 2010
Food Craft for Fussy Eaters
A mother’s blog on inventive enticements for picky children is making waves globally.
08 September 2010
Sweet Poison
Namita Devidayal’s Aftertaste tells the syrupy saga of families in the mithai business. The author pleads guilty of a sweet tooth.
13 August 2010
Changing Epic Traditions
The Ramayan holds interest for India’s contemporary generation a million years since its first oral telling.
28 July 2010
Reason is All
A new biography of Ayn Rand takes us closer to one of the more complex literary personalities of the last century.
01 July 2010
Phantoms of the Mind
A novel about ghosts that are as real as the evil in human hearts
27 October 2009
Authors
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of nine books, including the award-winning Water, Peace, and War : Confronting the Global Water Crisis
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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