Voices

New Beginnings with Old Friends

Rajeev Masand

New Beginnings with Old Friends • Shall We Call Them Kat-Ran? • The Scream Part 5

The Case for Porn

Madhavankutty Pillai

A writ petition to make watching porn a non-bailable offence has got everything upside down

The Problem of Our Laws

Hartosh Singh Bal

That Bhullar should hang before Kamal Nath or Jagdish Tytler may not be a travesty of law, but it is a travesty of justice

Lie of the Land

Madhavankutty Pillai

The Survey of India’s case against Google for hosting a map making contest is laughable

The cables that were recently released by WikiLeaks portray Rajiv Gandhi as a middleman, an implication the Congress has denied by discrediting WikiLeaks. But the report of the Shah Commission, which investigated the excesses of the Emergency, too, points to Rajiv Gandhi’s inordinate interest in the affairs of Indian Airlines, as well as Indira Gandhi’s intervention on behalf of Boeing during the Emergency