India

A Nation Beyond Prophets

Siddharth Singh

Four writers who were prescient in many ways about a country few get right

From An Imperial To A National Cuisine

If India’s cuisine was influenced by colonial and princely tastes before 1947, the driving force after Independence was the palate of the urban middle-class. The task of shaping the national cuisine was taken up by the menus of restaurants, cookbooks and magazines and later by TV and films

India Through Slogans

PR Ramesh

The political art of mesmerising the mass mind with minimum usage of words

A Nation Apart

Ullekh NP and Siddharth Singh

Can BJP afford an India divided?

The ‘Ignorance’ of India

Open

Surveys become talking points and trending topics on social media. Perhaps that is their only purpose, for it is hard to imagine what such findings are useful for

India Enchanted

Shreya Ray

Lord Hastings’ 1814 journey from Calcutta to Punjab with painter Sita Ram is a discovery of Colonial India through lives mundane and magical

The Other War

Shruti Vyas

When will world leaders act with alacrity in the battle against global warming?

Modi Makes a Decisive Move in the UK

Harsh V Pant

Modi has made the relationship more forward looking

Flight to Capital

Siddharth Singh

Being rich in India in the age of Thomas Piketty

Scatalogically Speaking

Tishani Doshi

A month in Japan, where the bathroom experience is beyond superlative, makes one wonder how Japan and India could have diverged in such a dramatic fashion when it comes to potty culture