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Essays
In the Enemy’s Mind
During the Cold War, Edwin C May ran a secret psychic spying programme, known as Star Gate, for the US government. He recounts the project’s successes, as he sees them
Living with Lalli
One afternoon on a bus in Mumbai, writer Kalpana Swaminathan discovered her detective, Lalli—a collector of curiosities that hint of murder
Merchants of Policy
There is nothing ‘non-profit’ about most Indian think-tanks, contends Shanu Athiparambath, given the mindboggling ease with which funds are usually siphoned off
An Outsider in Bollywood
From a meeting with Mahesh Bhatt at his fourth floor office that led him to write the song Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai to another meeting at a fourth-floor office, this time with Aditya Chopra, about writing the film Ek Tha Tiger, journalist Neelesh Misra speaks of his first ten years in Bollywood
‘You Are My Illegitimate Father’
For six years, he has fought in court to be recognised as ND Tiwari’s son. Any day now, Rohit Shekhar will learn the results of the DNA test
The Undefeated
She is India’s only known patient of Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, and has undergone eight surgeries so far. She couldn’t complete college because she was always waiting in doctors’ chambers. She lost her father as he couldn’t afford a bypass surgery. Payel Bhattacharya on the loneliness and anger of being the only one of her kind
The Revenge of the Mithun Fan
After his book on Disco Dancer described Mithun Chakraborty’s acting the ‘worst ever’ in Hindi cinema, Anuvab Pal got a letter from a certain Mimoh. Who took revenge in a way that can only be called ingenious
Pakistan’s TV Warriors
Pakistan’s new media is fearlessly taking on India bashers and those distorting history in ways that would have been seen as unpatriotic a few years ago.
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