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S Prasannarajan • Pratap Bhanu Mehta • Swapan Dasgupta • Shashi Tharoor • Tunku Varadarajan • Shiv Visvanathan • Priyamvada Gopal • TM Krishna • Ullekh NP • Madhavankutty Pillai • V Shoba • Aresh Shirali • Sonali Acharjee • Shreya Sethuraman

Beauty Redefined

TM Krishna

Aesthetics is not a matter of arts alone in an age of stifling cultural battles

Berlin-Artparasites: Art for Mankind

Mansi Goda

Giving a platform to all kinds of artists, Berlin Artparasites employs art to communicate with strangers

Northeast Central

Sneha Bhura

The soft power of the region has given its new cultural entrepreneurs an increased presence in food, music and fashion

No Country for Cyclists

Siddhartha Gupta

Most developed countries go out of their way to promote a cycling culture, but in India, it can be a really dangerous hobby

Unusual Suspects

David Lepeska

Indian-Americans, hailed as a ‘model minority’ in the US, are all over the news for a variety of wrongdoings. Is Indian culture at fault?

Striking Back at the Empire

Hartosh Singh Bal

Pavan Varma believes the liberation of our colonised mind requires us to learn from our ancient past. But did the past he envisages ever exist?

From the Horse’s Mouth

Madhavankutty Pillai

The Kala Ghoda fest is supposedly about nine days of ‘cultural’ activity. But it’s really more a street fair.

Weekend Wisdom

Rahul Pandita

Dhume’s book serves as an apt portrait of an Indonesia torn between love for Osama bin Laden and Demi Moore

Netting a Match

Pallavi Polanki

An intimate look at the lives of two working girls from Chennai who put themselves through the modern rituals of finding a groom on a matrimonial site