Voices

Claiming the Taj

Madhavankutty Pillai

How to turn a magnificent monument into a trite property dispute

The FIR ‘Shop’

Anil Budur Lulla

An kiosk to register FIRs opens in a Bangalore mall and one complaint is against the police commissioner

Nothing Unnatural About It. Period.

Shreya Sethuraman

How some individuals and organisations are creating conversations around a subject which was hitherto a taboo

Discovery of a Cult

Mayank Shekhar

Have you heard of someone called S Sukhdev? It’s about time you did

The same old game of hide and seek

Rajeev Masand

Of Bestsellers and Blockbusters • Happy High?

The Penalty of Inefficiency

Mohit Hira

The present government need not squander away a mandate as overwhelming as this and must fix India’s infrastructure first at its very fundamental level. Sanskrit and The Gita can wait

Breaking New Ground

Harsh V. Pant

Modi seems to be re-defining the terms on which India is likely to engage with the world in the coming years

Click, Connect and Fall Out of Love

Sneha Bhura

The puzzling and heart-breaking world of new-age matrimonial websites in India

‎The Dharmic Judge

Shahina KK

Justice V R Krishna Iyer (1914-2014) was a tireless champion of fundamental rights

Why Raghuram Rajan Is Wrong

Dhiraj Nayyar

Rajan believes that it is too early to be complacent about inflation. For him, it is too risky to cut rates now. The reality is that Rajan isn’t likely to get a more benign scenario for a rate cut