Cover Story
Great Expectations
A look at the interim budget this year will make it evident that it is virtually the election manifesto of the UPA government. It lays down the background of a prolonged electoral battle.....
Master of the Medium
Like its arch rival Congress, the BJP too has turned into a personality-based party. Like the Congress campaign which centres....
Special Report
Splits Showing
The Karnataka Congress may be leaving no stone unturned to appease the Muslim community with sops like the controversial Shadi Bhagya scheme for women or the recent budget announcement which earmarked Rs 800 crore....
Special Story
'The Smell Factor'
Rambhau Chorgade has a beautiful daughter of marriageable age, reasonably educated and blessed with all attributes to attract a prospective ....
Business
Beyond Marketing Moon-Shots
100 million viewers across the globe sat down to watch this year’s Super Bowl. With marketer’s eyes focused on the $4 million 30 second ad slots, you could be forgiven for not realising....
Arts
Great Going
You are one of those people who are most spoken and written about… I am the way I am. Being the centre of attention is nothing new to me.....
Undercover
The American 'Bear' gets Bullish on Asia!
In a globalised era, sound foreign policies and stable international relations are central to developmental – internal and external - economics taking the right shape for nations. Unilateral acts are no longer appropriate or conducive for ....
Life
Taming all odds
The Dharmshaktus are a couple unlike any you will encounter in this country. Bound by a shared love for high adventure, they have earned name and fame by touching opposite ends ....
Rear Window
Fight the Flab
Bizarre reactions are pouring in with respect to obese people. The New Zealand government asks an African national weighing 130 kgs to leave the country because they can’t afford....
Far Pavilion
The Kafkaesque Karachi
Noted architect, author and town planner Arif Hassan says Karachi’s economy is "War economy†and the informal sector in this city has been "Formalized.†He made the observation while talking to TSI at the sidelines of....
Book Review
The First Muslim
When Lesley Hazleton, an agnostic Jewish female and a journalist, decided to write down the biography of Prophet Muhammad, it did raise certain eyebrows....
Gandhi: A Spiritual Biography
Hundreds of biographies have been written on Mahatma Gandhi since his assassination in 1948. Leaders, writers and historians have poured millions of words.....
Movie Review
Gunday
In a Hindi film, if it’s Kolkata, the Howrah Bridge, the Hooghly and Durga Puja have got to be de rigueur. And there are bound to be frequent allusions to fish, football and frenzied festivities.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
