India’s Sexual Revolution
The beginnings of India’s sexual revolution can be linked with India’s economic liberalization that began in the early 1990s. Opportunities increased as MNCs courted.......
A Revolutionary History of Inter-war India
Ask any ordinary Indian about Bhagat Singh and Mahatma Gandhi and perhaps the first thing that they’ll tell you is ......
Hillary
Hillary Clinton is a divisive figure. Divisive in that she elicits extreme reactions from people who follow her ......
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
In the epilogue to his seminal work on Nazi history, The Rise and Fall of Third Reich, American War Correspondent William .....
The Good Revisionist
The history of Eastern rulers and conquerors has been a history of short shrift. In the popular imagination, fuelled by the Orientalists .....
The men and their moment
History, it is often said, is written by the victors.....
Blank Page
Adapting a piece of literature in a visual or performing medium has always elicited......
John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson
In November of 1959, as a shocked American public was hit with the news that a number of their favourite quiz.....
Ted Grant: The Permanent Revolutionary
Ted Grant had certainly made a significant impact on British politics as the founder and theoretical inspirer of the Militant Tendency. The success of Militant had turned us into a household name.
A Thousands Shards of Glass
The United States of America has earned many sobriquets over the decades – Uncle Sam, global cop, superpower – and for good reason. For more than a century now, America has been dominant in nearly every field.
Sachin Tendulkar
So, here we go again! Singing paeans to the one and only Sachin Tendulkar has been a national pastime long enough for the unconverted not to be unduly perturbed. After all, in a country starved of genuine heroes, he was a godsend during his days.
Rogue Elephant
Foreign correspondents in India are increasingly turning authors and spelling out their takes on the country. BBC's Sam Miller authored A Strange Kind of Paradise, and ex-Financial Times journalist John Elliott wrote Implosion: India’s Tryst With Reality.
Karachi, You're Killing Me!
Ok! Ok! Ok! By now we know that Karachi'ites are normal people. They drink like fish, snort like alligators, and have sex like rabbits. We now also know that they have the biggest number of people on earth that are looking to escape out. Done
Starting At Zero
While convention and prevailing superstition demands that one must not compare one’s age with somebody who has given up his ghost, I couldn’t help but ponder what had I achieved when I was 27.
Savage Harvest
How many stories would it take before the malignance of what happened in North India in 1947 would be washed out of the subcontinent’s bloodstreams? It has been sixty-seven years hence, and writers across borders and beyond, in languages spoken in the geographies concerned and more
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
