A pretty face on the back cover sells more copies, my book agent had told me. Which is why when dear friend Nuzhat Aziz decided to step out of her...

Half-way into The Sad Demise of Manpreet Singh, the book’s unlikely hero Dominic ‘Biscuit’ McLeod, a visa fraud officer in the Australian high...

Online outrage has made the Times of India (TOI) tweak its social media policy. After Quartz India reported on a new contract that would have ‘forced...

Even before you have reached Chapter One, The Lives of Others hits you right in the gut. Nitai Das, farmer, failed by fate, feudalism and bad monsoon,...

What would Gandhi have thought of today’s bottoms? The old man probably had no idea what women of his time looked like beneath the bundles of clothing...

A June noon is not the best time to drive to Satya Niketan from Chittaranjan Park. That is where Sri Venkateshwara College is, but I have sadly...

Some social media platforms and websites have run a story on an American satire show by Jon Stewart where correspondent Jason Jones reports on a fake...

At the neighbourhood dhaba, the one next to NDTV Convergence office in Okhla where Barkha Dutt did a 'Chai pe Charcha' some weeks ago, friends turned...

At the neighbourhood dhaba, the one next to NDTV Convergence office in Okhla where Barkha Dutt did a ‘Chai pe Charcha’ some weeks ago, friends turned...

Q. Sita’s Curse opens with a masturbation scene. Meera Patel relieves herself while her angry husband bangs on the closed door. While describing the...

Why this sudden foray into politics? And why Trinamool Congress?I really don’t know how this happened so suddenly. I took the decision overnight. I...

Kings knew how to keep it simple. As a new queen came, the old queen was retired. But for services rendered (the loyalty, the love, the heirs and such...