Tehelka Is Dead. Long Live Tehelka.
Amit Sengupta was one of the editors at ‘Tehelka’, when it was still called the ‘People’s…
Notes from the Underground
Congress in an Aquarium
In the third and finally instalment on the Indian polity on the eve of elections, Amit…
Where Have The Red Flags Gone?
In an apt second part to last month’s ‘X-ray of a Fascist’, Amit Sengupta focuses on…
The Dawn is No Longer an Illusion
A third-rater driven by nothing but market fundamentalism is always full of himself. And doesn’t even…
Yeh hain Bombay meri jaan…
Even as the infinite sea moves like a gigantic, living creature in perpetual motion, bringing cool…
The Poison We Drink…
Even with a totally discredited and disconnected, scam-tainted, lame duck regime, which obsessively pampers and subsidises…
You call the rain. It will come
They are all straight out of the classics of Munshi Premchand and Phanishwar Nath Renu: the…
Neither God Nor Prophet
“With all respect, every day, thousands of people die, but still the world moves on. Just…
Neither God nor Prophet
Like bloodthirsty mobs watching gladiators in an open stadium, the country is in a celebratory, predatory,…
Not a Bridge too far
When we were students, the great journalist Sham Lal used to write that amazing column, ‘Life…