Voices

Guess Who’s Betting Big on Imran

Rajeev Masand

Impassioned Jugalbandi • Petulance Over a Paid Appearance

Nepal Earthquake: The Moment

Jason Burke

A report from Ground Zero. Why it is always the poor

The Magnet of Suffering

Madhavankutty Pillai

On brand building exercises by religious groups during times of catastrophe

INTO THE UNKNOWN

James Astill

Labour or Tory, the 7 May election poses a big threat to the United Kingdom. JAMES ASTILL takes a train ride with Prime Minister David Cameron to gauge the mood of a politically broken Britain

You are the way you cook

Shylashri Shankar

If north and south Indians share a similar genetic structure and perhaps a ‘common origin’ in the Harappan civilisation, then what has given birth to the different techniques of cooking?

Woman of Gravitas

Rajeev Masand

Another Coming of Age• The Fury of a Talent Scorned

Sitaram Yechury and the last ghost story

S Prasannarajan

Make CPM a social democratic party or dump it for the sake of political hygiene

The half rights of man

Madhavankutty Pillai

An amendment of India’s dowry law could worsen its misuse by divorce lawyers

The art of the master curator

Somak Ghoshal

The world’s most famour curator remains relevant by creating what he calls Gesamtkunstwerk, a comprehensive work of art. A reading of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Ways of Curating