Voices
Staring at Defeat
Sandipan Deb
Even the security forces know that every starving Indian is a potential Maoist insurgent
Culture Unplugged
…and now Pakistan wants to cleanse its airwaves of vulgar alien (read: Indian) influences.
Naked Power
Picture a woman cornered and a bevy of men gloating at her discomfiture. And now ask what it would take to upend this power equation.
In Greed We Trust
A meditation on why we Indians constantly sniff each other for clues of status, much like dogs in a park to figure out who’s on top.
The Power of Fiction
If the Jesus story is mostly a fabrication, it could yet let me outdo Dan Brown.
Did Jesus Exist?
Lateral thinking, lateral questions—occasioned by a book I chanced upon during a Mediterranean holiday.
The Statistical Pursuit of Happiness
Amartya Sen and others have convinced France that measuring the joy of a nation is as important as calculating its GDP. But why does this make you smirk?
Looking It in the Eye
It’s in the final moments of life that character shines through. Lisa Ray just let us glimpse hers.
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