Undoing the Ordinary

The Inevitable Blame Game

Films of a Feather Don’t Flock Together • Not the Next Big Thing

The Death of Rohith Vemula and the Republican Ideal of a Just Society

Janaka’s Questions

And Ashtavakra’s idea of freedom and bondage

Sabarimala: Can Gods Be Easily Tempted?

Why everyone, including women, should avoid Sabarimala

Sanjay Dutt & Salman Khan: Silver Linings

What Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan teach us about positive thinking

Sachin Tendulkar: Hits, Misses and Maybes

India’s cricket prodigies today are luckier than their predecessors, but who will stay the distance like Tendulkar?

Donald Trump’s Triumph of Insolence

The rise and rise of an angry populist and the conservative crack up

From An Imperial To A National Cuisine

If India’s cuisine was influenced by colonial and princely tastes before 1947, the driving force after Independence was the palate of the urban middle-class. The task of shaping the national cuisine was taken up by the menus of restaurants, cookbooks and magazines and later by TV and films

The Frenemies Say Cheese

Not Selling Themselves Short • All for That Distinct Shade of Red