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Selective Indignation

Swapan Dasgupta

The norm in today’s polarised world

Of a Uniform Dress Code

When Individual Interest Must Yield To Institutional Interest

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

Why I Admire Arnab Goswami

It is politics rather than journalism that explains his brand

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

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