An ode to aspirations
Nabarun Bhattacharya writes of times when the Kanu Sanyals, Charu Majumdaars and Che Guevaras have faded into their own parade
The spectre still looms
It is not for nothing that the opium war hangs like an albatross around China's neck to this day and it cannot deal with the West without referring to its fallout.
Going soft on a hard country
For the military the image of paradise is the cantonment, with its clean, swept, neatly signposted streets…In the blaring, stinking violent world of the modern ‘third world’ Muslim inner city, the mosque provides an oasis of calm and reflection
Mumbai multiplied
All of Bollywood is necessarily a part of Indian cinema. But all of Indian cinema certainly isn’t Bollywood.
“There is no reservation in the film industryâ€: Amitabh Bachchan
In an exclusive TSI Interview The superstar airs his views on India’s education system and the pros and cons of reservation
A question of culture
Somehow, every time I took a break from reading Ritual, Heritage and Identity, the thought that came to my mind was: While I was reading, I could see the fine lines of differences that the three words of the title conjure up.
Miss Timmins' School for Girls
Nayana Currimbhoy's debut novel “Miss Timmins' School for Girls†is an intense love story and a dark murder mystery set against the backdrop of India in 70s. The tale is played out in Panchgani, a hill station in Maharashtra that was influenced by the liberated lifestyle of Bombay and saw the clash of Indian culture, British colonialism, the new wave of sex, drugs and the experimentation with popular rock & roll music.
Life in the times of Internet
Adultery and other stories by Farrukh Dhondy is a collection of delicious and delightful short stories written in a delicate prose. The setting in all the stories, except for Say Cheese, are contemporary India and England.
Simon & Schuster turns towards India
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, and one of world's best known publishing houses has taken an Eastward turn and has landed in India. Considered as the big daddy of publishing industry in the United States and Britain, S&S is expected to introduce fresh trends in the publishing industry in India that looks all poised to take a leap in coming years
Punjab partition and the 'Holocaust'
Religious differences don’t mean that people start killing each other. This is not the normal behaviour; people lived with those differences. Somebody politicised them and that is where the problem actually began
A watershed doctrine for the US
As the United States stumbles through its economic challenges at home, the pressure of world events will not subside. But America’s ability to address them has changed.
Terrorism: Will there be an end to it?
Is it the lot of a common man on Indian roads to be killed for no fault of theirs? Like so many other black days, once again a black Wednesday came when a bomb blast took a heavy toll of human lives in New Delhi on September 7.
A view from Dhaka
Bangladesh was left disappointed and frustrated as the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrapped up his two-day visit to our nation’s capital this week.
UPA for rural development, doubles PMAGY fund
In a major boost to develop rural India, the UPA government has doubled the funding for Pradhanmantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) for the integrated development of scheduled-castes dominated villages in the country
Films and history - a complex relationship
Fiction, they say, imitates reality. A possible extension of this adage should be, historical fiction imitates historical reality. Yet, 'serious' historians often discard fiction in general and movies in particular as mouthpieces for the times gone by
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
