Features

How to Bewitch a Cannes Jury

Aresh Shirali

While it could get a few Indians frothy at the wrong end, it’s pretty obvious why the jury at Cannes loves Gillette’s campaign.

‘We are lucky not to have seen a dirty bomb’

Madhavankutty Pillai

Peace Nobel laureate ElBaradei on the dangers and inequities of the nuclear world. And why he admires Manmohan Singh so much.

Left Unity Makes Sense

Dhirendra K. Jha

The CPM and CPI need to leave doctrines aside and face practical realities

The Murky World of Crime Reporting

Haima Deshpande

Mumbai’s police-underworld-media nexus is as venal as it is formidable. On his chosen turf, J Dey’s reputation of integrity would have been enough to make him a marked man

Sitting with over a hundred people clustered around red felt-top tables, this enthusiast played a game that was neither the fabled Diwali matka of teen patti, nor Contract Bridge, but one that required as much skill as luck, or perhaps more.

The Grinders and the ATMs

Arindam Mukherjee

An American card game is drawing Indians of a certain disposition to casino boats in Goa: whizkids who insist that it’s a game almost entirely of skill

Advantage Buddhadeb

Dhirendra K. Jha

CPM general secretary Prakash Karat’s hold on his party is getting feebler by the day. His peace overtures at the recent Central Committee meeting in Hyderabad notwithstanding

Clarion Call

PC Vinoj Kumar

Jayalalithaa’s offensive threatens the Centre’s cosy neighbourliness with Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka

What Gandhi would tell our serial fasters

Srinath Perur

Chances are he might have gone on a long unconditional fast himself to convince them that their ways weren’t kosher

The Great Iron Ore Heist

Jay Mazoomdaar

The Posco project in Odisha is not just about violation of human rights or an ecological disaster. It is a brazen example of how the country’s high and mighty are shifting goalposts to favour a powerful foreign multinational corporation