Columns

‘MeToo has made women weak and whiny,’ says Lionel Shriver

Bhavya Dore

Bhavya Dore in Open Conversation with Lionel Shriver, author and columnist

Indebted to Imaginary Pleasures

Shylashri Shankar

Photographs of food can be equally appetising

Decisively Submissive

Bharat Karnad

Delhi’s compliance with Washington on Iran will let China gain influence

Game of Clones

Madhavankutty Pillai

The movie Sarkar adds some more elements to the Tamil political drama

New Train of Thought

Bibek Debroy

Five measures to transform the Railways

The Evil Joke

S Prasannarajan

Éric Vuillard, the 2017 winner of Prix Goncourt, returns to the pathologies of the past in what could be the smallest novel—and one of the most powerful-- ever written on the Nazi project

Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

In memory of Indian martyrs of the Great Wars

Ben Stiller: ‘I sat with the New York governor till he said ‘Yeah, let’s do it’’

Noel de Souza

Noel de Souza in conversation with Ben Stiller

The Akbari Synthesis and India’s Plurality

Ranjit Hoskote

What Sikandra tells us

It is the tension between cultural memory and current political anxieties about change that gives this riverside saga by Aatish Taseer the kind of literary urgency we hardly see in the writings on India