Features

The Joy of Post-Truth Advertising

Aresh Shirali

And the code that winning brands have cracked

Padmavati: History as a Dispute

Siddharth Singh

Blasts from the past strike modern India with unfailing regularity. The controversy over Padmavati focuses on the fact that what endangers freedom is the politicisation of protest in the name of freedom

The Power of Two

Vaasanthi

Kamal Haasan has drawn out a light sabre, but Rajinikanth appears to have put his aside

Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth: Star Wars

V Shoba

They are the twin pillars of heroism in Tamil cinema. Will Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth now reinvent heroism in Tamil politics?

Arabian Knights and Nightmare

Anchal Vohra

The purge in Riyadh and the deepening Cold War between Saudi Arabia and Iran

The Other Story of Justice Delayed

Amita Shah

Tribunal trauma

The Truth about Love Jihad

Veerendra Mishra

The dangers of conversion by other means

Saving the 1% from Outrage

Siddharth Singh

Money stashed abroad as revealed in the Paradise Papers incites passion but the reality of offshore accounts is more complex

Between Man and God

V Shoba

Dalit priests have found acceptance in neighbouring Kerala, but in Tamil Nadu, will the wait ever end for non-Brahmins to enter the sanctum sanctorum?