controversy
A Cancel Culture Mutation
Tanishq pulling out a harmless ad is one more precedent for social media coercion
The Triumph and Trial of Karan Johar
Bollywood’s ultimate insider finds himself cast as the fall guy in the drama around Sushant Singh Rajput’s death
General Election 2019: Quote Hanger
Remember how I described him on 7 December 2017? Was I not prophetic?, asks Mani Shankar Aiyar
How the Gupta Brothers Bought a Country
Novelist Karan Mahajan chronicles the rise and fall of three small-time traders from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh who went on to become the de facto rulers of South Africa
Perumal Murugan: Down to Earth
Tamil author Perumal Murugan makes his readers partners in the life of the peasant and the possibilities of nature
Mughal Lite
Recent biographies of Jahangir and Nur Jahan may have made the royal couple more accessible, but they often slip into the realm of conjecture
Justice Dipak Misra: Courting Controversy
The travails of Justice Misra are those of a soldier in an age that wants heroes
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