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Tragedy of Syria and of wars

21 March 2016 1:49 AM IST
The worst wars are where a regime turns on its people and/or outsiders jump in to make their point. Syria is a classic case. Protests for rights...

Hitches of getting hitched

14 March 2016 1:16 AM IST
Humans have a penchant for entertainment spectacles in which some of the participants may disagree with the definition of entertainment. The ancient...

Braving brute prejudice

23 Feb 2016 4:14 AM IST
Besides that both were authors, and both died recently, there seems nothing in common between a reclusive American and an outgoing Italian...

From Athens to Silicon Valley, a quest to understand genius

22 Feb 2016 2:06 AM IST
Calling someone a genius may be a subjective opinion but you are unlikely to go wrong with the likes of Socrates, Michelangelo, Adam Smith, Beethoven,...

A Chinese hat-trick in Bollywood and other villainies

8 Feb 2016 1:48 AM IST
Out of all actors, those portraying villains have it the hardest. They usually get their just desserts onscreen but the odium around them doesn’t...

‘Travel writing may change, but will never die’

1 Feb 2016 12:46 AM IST
Its demise was predicted back in the 1930s but it endured, and even in our day, despite the Internet and Google Maps allowing us to access any part of...

The life, craft and paradox of Suchitra Sen

11 Jan 2016 3:36 AM IST
Her forte was Bengali films, usually opposite Uttam Kumar, and she only appeared in a handful of Hindi films out of her 60-odd before retiring into...

Mastering motherhood

4 Jan 2016 1:37 AM IST
It usually involves pain, discomfort, lack of sleep or rest, being ready to face the unexpected or the unreasonable anytime, leads to crankiness and...

A consummate politician, an ‘Atal’ jewel of India

28 Dec 2015 12:41 AM IST
He was often called “a right man in a wrong party”, but the label, though snappy, couldn’t have been more wrong. Atal Bihari Vajpayee never repudiated...

Investigating murder and adventures of a Mughal nobleman

21 Dec 2015 2:13 AM IST
Human life was likely to be “nasty, brutish, and short”, said 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, in the absence of a political community,...

An apsara and her divine, difficult loves

14 Dec 2015 2:17 AM IST
Forever young and beguilingly beautiful, capable of swaying gods, men and demons alike from their resolve, they are the Hindu pantheon’s most alluring...

Forests in literary imagination

30 Nov 2015 1:47 AM IST
From Snow White to Tarzan, Robin Hood to Alice, Lord Rama to the Pandavas, Ali Baba to Winnie the Pooh, Dorothy (of Oz) to Harry Potter, from works of...
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