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Celebrities as Mercenaries

TP Sreenivasan

Rihanna and Thunberg highlight the pitfalls of exploiting stardom to champion a cause

The Always Undecided Post

Jayanta Ghosal

The dissidents, meanwhile, say that it is a Catch-22 situation. Either Rahul Gandhi must take the responsibility or leave the office totally to someone else

Revelations

S Prasannarajan

As we step out of the plague year

David Davidar

Open

Publisher and author

Aatish Taseer

Open

Author

Mahesh Rao

Open

Author

The Writer Who Came In From the Cold

Sudeep Paul

The greatest spy novelist fictionalised his life while his fiction often seemed too real

Spying

Swapan Dasgupta

John le Carré told us, was strictly a thinking man’s profession

Anti-national

Virendra Kapoor

The most used pejorative

Rao’s Range

Kaveree Bamzai

Rajkummar Rao glimpses the next level of stardom with a buzzworthy performance as the urbane yet deeply compromised elitist in the movie based on Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger