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Essays
How My Conscience Was Abducted in Dantewada
In the garb of social responsibility, the Essar Group recently organised a storytelling festival for the ‘benefit’ of children in this Maoist-dense area. Apart from the organisers’ poorly disguised disdain for local artistes, what emerged most starkly was the stench of corporate propaganda
The Man Who Aced CAT Six Times
The founder of Mumbai’s Quoin Academy, which helps business school aspirants prepare for entrance exams, has aced the Common Admission Test six times in as many years. He is also the topper of Maharashtra’s MBA-CET. But Patrick D’Souza neither prepares for these tests nor wants to join a B-school
Reading in Sin
If sexual explicitness caused the most outrage in the early phase of book bans in India, there was a point after which it became almost entirely about religion
The Guru Ambedkar
BR Ambedkar chose a religion rather than a political ideology to empower India’s Untouchables for a reason
The Man Who Wanted to Wed 500 Times
Holder of world records for the most flags tattooed on his body, most straws stuffed in his mouth and longest non-stop scooter journey ever, Guinness Rishi explains his need to break and set new records
Moby Dick’s Avenger
Once, he sailed on ships that carted oil and timber around the world; today, Siddharth Chakravarty prowls the high seas in search of illegal whaling ships to thwart
The Gandhi Style Statements
Namrata Zakaria on the First Family’s enviable wardrobe, and why their sartorial sense matters so much
The Man Who Wore a Sanitary Napkin
Villagers saw him cleaning his undergarments stained with goat blood and thought he had a sexual disease. But Arunachalam Muruganantham was only trying to make a smart, cheap sanitary pad for his wife
Finding Fact in Fiction
Real life intrudes on fiction all the time. Kalpish Ratna indulge in some literary detection as they search for clues to the true character of Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes’ life and movements
From Tagore to Thakur
Durga puja pandals have clay figurines of Tagore. As do Saraswati puja ceremonies. Parents buy their kids Tagore dolls. In a state where the Left dismissed him as too elitist, Sumana Roy observes the canonisation of the poet-educationist
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