Voices

Should Non-Muslims be Invited to Madrassas?

Tufail Ahmad

A multi-city edition Urdu daily asked this question to its readers. The response will leave you surprised

The relaunch of Rahul Gandhi

Kumar Anshuman

The 56 days ‘Chintan’ has not changed Rahul Gandhi much and he has yet to become Rahul 2.0. But it’s a marketing strategy that seems to be working for Congress as of now

The Discreet Campaign of Mario Vargas Llosa

S Prasannarajan

The Discreet Hero is a state-of-the-nation novel with the pace of a whodunnit by the last surviving member of a literary club that once ruled the art of the novel

There’s Something About Sunny

Madhavankutty Pillai

Why Sunny Leone is doing so well in Bollywood

Songwriting by Indian bands in English has stood out for all the wrong reasons. It’s mostly unremarkable. I can’t remember any great pop song in English that I can sing word for word written by an Indian band in the past year

How to Be Respectful to the Queen

Rajeev Masand

Cold Feet, Colder Words • The Obsessive Filmbreaker

American Pastoral

S Prasannarajan

Why the American Century is not over

Through the Local Looking Glass

Madhavankutty Pillai

A Marathi movie at prime time in Mumbai multiplexes does not deserve outrage

In Sickness and in Health

Rajeev Masand

Allo, Allo • Producer’s Surplus

Sexuality of Fashion

Chinki Sinha

At the recent Amazon India Fashion Week, almost everything was tagged as “androgynous” because for some time now, it has become a fad, and if women didn’t strut around in men’s clothing, they were not cool