Voices

Nayantara Sahgal: The Writer as Dissenter

Shiv Visvanathan

Nayantara Sahgal’s words against cultural intolerance warn us that the idea of India is being violated

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

Karan Johar’s Open Set Policy

Rajeev Masand

Hitting Back, Quietly • When Fortune Turns Fickle

For the Day Bihar Thinks Beyond Caste

Shruti Vyas

Complexity, despair and hope in Bihar

How India’s Unofficial Blockade is Affecting Post-Earthquake Nepal

Naomi Mihara

A nation struggling to recover from one crisis has been hit by another

Don’t Blame the Cow

Shiv Visvanathan

Intimations of soft fascism

Modi’s Perception War

S Prasannarajan

Modi has to regain the argument at home by not letting the mad men of the Hindu Right undermine his ambition

Call of the Red Planet

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the sudden explosion of interest in Mars

The Hindu Terror

Anantanand Rambachan

Is Rajiv Malhotra the sole spokesman of Hindu thought? An argument against the culture of fear

The Cook, the Chef and the Gender Gap

Shylashri Shankar

Let’s assume that skill in the kitchen is gender-neutral. If so, why is a man more likely than a woman to be taken seriously as a chef? It is perception that creates the illusion of a distinction between men and women in the kitchen