Cover Stories

The Idea Deficit

Shonaleeka Kaul

The walled world of academia

Re-reading Tagore to Become Human

Aseem Shrivastava

The nature of soul

The Banality of Offence

Ranjit Hoskote

Illiberal instincts in the public square

Kama Rajya

Devdutt Pattanaik

Independence through eroticism

Kamal Haasan: A Star in Search of a Bigger Sky

V Shoba

A mega movie. A political battle. And still not playing to gods. It's the role of a lifetime for Kamal Haasan

Is Candidate Rahul the Biggest Asset for Modi in 2019?

PR Ramesh

Instead of unveiling an alternative vision for India, the Congress president has made himself an election issue

The Bloody Biography of Change

TCA Raghavan

By all accounts, India is not a factor in the election. Is this because the consensus on India is so strong across Pakistan’s political divides that no party gets extra mileage by wrapping the flag around itself?

Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Nandini Nair

An Indian love child and other wild revelations. Former wife Reham Khan shames Imran in her memoir

Imran Khan and the Struggle for a New Pakistan

Mehr Tarar in Lahore

Imran Khan is hopeful of winning the Pakistani General Election on July 25th. Despite his legendary U-turns and his never-changing mantra of ‘me-myself-I’, there is one thing that remains unquestioned in an environment where corruption is a way of life: his financial integrity. He is many things but he is not corrupt. And Pakistan is everything for Imran Khan