Five Military Operations which changed the course of Modern Indian History
4 June, 1984 marked a bloody day in the history of India. 30 years back today,…
June, 2014
Our Shelves, Our Selves
In case of disaster, if we can save only some of the books we own, how…
Kaleidoscope of Shadows
The photographer Razaq Kottakkal created his art manually, with a virtuosity that is perhaps impossible to…
The Sweet Smell of N,N-Diethylbenzamide
The ‘modern’ middleclass ideal of suburbia: reaping the fruits of industrialisation while insulating ourselves from its…
Sovereignty, Unity and The State Of Denial
The self-appointed champions of secular liberalism are decrying the recent electoral triumph of Hindu nationalism as…
End Notes from a historic mandate
Why is Modi only a symptom of a disease? Writes Sayan Bhattacharya sitting on his armchair….
Residue: A Review
Nitisha Kaul’s first novel, Residue offers stunning sensitivity, delightful intrigues, interesting technical innovations as well as…
Are you Walking the Talk?
Much like our vanishing ability to process information in chunks longer than 140 characters, we seem…
Coup de Tête: A Radical Takeover of Your Head
As we speak, Orwellian forces are creating …and gradually introducing into mainstream society… slippery speech patterns…
Reading a Map
A map dispassionately establishes, in quantifiable terms, the geography of a place, it fixes the contours…