The budget pricks the bubble
Cinema
Even if you do not question the politics of ‘The 15:17 to Paris’, you do wonder at Eastwood’s faulty plot design
The altruistic fictional PadMan is a wonderful cinematic icon
Cover Stories
ANGLE
On the remarkable deaths of two folk artistes while performing in Kerala
Diplomacy
India today has the political resolve to counter the permanent aggression of Islamabad
Essay
The Budget gets its priorities right
The Rachel Papers
Aunts don’t really get their due in Hindi cinema
Column
The embarrassment of a hacked Twitter account and the experience of a budget speech