Becoming Tennessee
14 Dec 2015 2:13 AM ISTDistinguished theatre critic John Lahr sheds a rather complex light on the life of one of America’s all-time greatest playwrights. In “Tennessee...
Capitalism and its need for reform
1 Jun 2015 5:27 AM ISTIn the 1987 Hollywood classic Wall Street, Michael Douglas’s character, Gordon Gekko, addresses a shareholders’ meeting of a fictional company. After...
Remembering the forgotten war
6 April 2015 1:59 AM ISTBarcelona is home to arguably one of the most famous football clubs in the world and the greatest football player of this generation – Lionel Messi....
Whose land is it anyway?
21 Feb 2015 6:54 AM ISTThe Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (LARR Act), was enacted by the...
Desolation
7 July 2014 2:23 AM ISTThe standard discourse surrounding the Kashmir Valley is usually shrouded under the dark cloud of militancy. The early ‘90s was probably the darkest...
A LONG, COLD SHADOW
23 Jun 2014 3:50 AM ISTLadakh’s history post-independence has been a struggle for political relevance. In an era, where the state of Jammu and Kashmir is administered on an...
The Game starts tonight, but has Brazil lost its play?
13 Jun 2014 5:25 AM ISTWith less than a day left before the World Cup kicks off, Brazil’s political establishment is probably hoping that the same sentiment permeates...
A Victim of its Times
26 May 2014 1:39 AM ISTThe mystique Tibet has always held amongst Western commentators is well chronicled. Despite posing great challenges to modern communication systems,...
A victim of its times
25 May 2014 8:47 PM ISTThe mystique Tibet has always held amongst Western commentators is well chronicled. Despite posing great challenges to modern communication systems,...
The Spy Who Gagged Me
7 April 2014 4:28 AM ISTSingapore being the epicentre of international espionage seems like an unlikely plot device for an espionage thriller. And yet Khalid Talib’s debut...
Repackaging the Mahatma
10 March 2014 5:05 AM ISTMohandas Karamchand Gandhi is an integral part of the Indian consciousness, if such a thing ever existed. School curriculums have played a part in...
Not a Clockwork Orange
3 March 2014 3:29 AM ISTThe current political crisis unraveling in Ukraine has numerous sides to it. Many narratives about the events in Kiev have played out in the media...
