Essays
The Death of Ideology
Hartosh Singh Bal
Why is it that since 1992, despite umpteen changes of government in India and several different Prime Ministers of every ilk—left, right and centre—it feels as if we have had the same government in power for 17 years?
Listening to a Silent Audience
A life on stage is absolutely magical, especially when you sense the power to hold your audience captive
Truth Is My Religion
In India, says former forest officer Rajendra Pratap Balwan, who was victimised for trying to save the Aravali forests, you are a rebel if you go by the book
The Final Frontier
If 30 years of foreign policy could be rewound, Pakistan’s ‘jihad factory’ would not exist, says Alice Albinia
Silence, Please
The story of an artist who has lived most of his life in deafness but still can’t afford to listen.
Vertical Limit
Pune teenager Krushnaa Patil climbed Mt Everest recently and spent half an hour on top of the world. But strangely, it wasn’t quite the whoohoo moment she thought it would be. Her Everest moment had come a little before the summit...
Spice of Life
He loved the quiet life in Kerala: the settled job, the quaint club with a pool full of frogs, perhaps even the growing paunch. Now, he explains the physics of arranged marriages to Yanks. Besides selling spices, that is
A Muse I Have No Use for
He suffers from amusia and can’t tell the difference between the national anthem and Beethoven’s Fifth
Rhyme and Treason
In these times when success is determined by numbers, poetry is a marginal mode of communication. Perhaps what the poet should look for is the intensity of his readership, not its size
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