Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

The embarrassment of a hacked Twitter account and the experience of a budget speech

Independence Day speeches, Abir Mukherjee's crime thrillers and a visit to the Rashtrapati Bhavan

“We have translated a pictorial dictionary into speech”

There is more to the history of the Indo-British encounter than Shashi Tharoor’s polished rhetoric

Deconstructing a speech made by Jaya Bachchan on India’s new anti-rape Bill in which she says many things without saying anything

A review of a long speech

A day with a group of stammerers

Magazine

Subscribe today and save up to 85% off the cover price