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Voices

The Homely Girl is Much at Home

Sports over Slapstick • Studio Prodigal’s Desperate Moves

Death at the Doorstep

It is hard to see how India can escape Ebola

A Bogus Chinese Dream

The streets of Hong Kong may go quiet and Wong may vanish from front pages, but the eruption of minds is what frightens autocracies such as China

A Matter Out of Place

Why dirt and waste are two parallel realms which need to be linked up in Modi’s project on cleaning up India

Bauji Goes Bonkers

Why Rajat Kapoor’s Ankhon Dekhi is the most underrated Hindi film of 2014

Breaking up Is Hard to Do

From Kill Dil to Killjoy • Lucky Displacement

MAKE IT IN AMERICA

Narendra Modi’s American whirlwind was a 100- hour-long non-stop performance starring Asia’s most popular politician selling his idea of India and his own legend to an enchanted audience...

The Making of an Oriental Cult

Modi’s ongoing conversation with the world provides the first draft of an Indian leader’s vision for himself as the new wise man of the Orient

Co-opting the Dead

Take reports of suicides following Jayalalithaa’s conviction with a pinch of salt

THE LONE EMPRESS

“Naalai namathe,” she had said when arrested in 1996, ‘Tomorrow is ours.’ This time, she had no words of solace for her followers

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