The Doval Doctrine - Never Say Never Again
Cinema
If you are in the movie for the purpose of being scared out of your wits from the word ‘go', ‘Annabelle: Creation’ is value for money
The film is watchable, but the setting and situations look increasingly passé
Dispatch
Pallavi Pundir visits ground zero of the tragedy at Baba Raghav Das Medical College hospital (Photos: Raul Irani)
Politics
The constant turner of ideological shades finds he has nowhere left to go but down
Cover Stories
India’s National Security Adviser may be playing the diplomat with China, but it is his muscular approach to threats that makes him effective
ANGLE
If nationalism has become a means to profit, blame the audience
Essay
The diminished role of the parliamentarian
Column
Independence Day speeches, Abir Mukherjee's crime thrillers and a visit to the Rashtrapati Bhavan