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Voices

Guess who’s in search of the Führer

Rahul’s Hitler invocation is in tune with the lazy intellectual tradition of our undergraduate radicals and peanut socialists

Bebo Begs Bhansali

Bebo Begs Bhansali • All Worth It • Pushing Sympathy

On Humiliation and Its Spectacle

Good doesn’t necessarily follow from blackening someone’s face, even if it appears to be deserved

Return of the Great Terror

No autocrat as sanguineous as Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is at work today, and it’s nostalgia that drives his extraterritorial ambition.

Sonam’s Four-Month Role Call

Sonam’s Four-Month Role Call • SuperStarbucks • The Man on the Wrong Flight

The Unwitting Reformer

The silver lining to Sanjay Dutt’s never-ending parole

Why Indian Politics Is Anti-Wealth

The pornography of poverty is the aesthetic of the desperate populist. And there is no place more rewarding than India for him. Pornography sells, and when poverty is marketed as wretchedness over which we have no control, it sells more

Deepika in Demand

Deepika in Demand • Shahid’s Getaway • A Hot and Heavy History

A Tale of Two Shoe Throwers

And a ready reckoner for all those who want to follow them

After the AAPocalypse

On Planet Kejriwal, martyrdom, no matter however stage- managed, is a prerequisite for further growth

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