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A murder in Dilli

Sunday 1 November '09

“That is where the murder would have occurred.” We are at the Hayat Baksh Bagh inside the Red Fort, now a shrunken memory of the beautiful imperial garden it once was.
Duplicity Street

Saturday 10 October '09

Neti, Neti: Not This, Not This Anjum Hasan Roli Pages: 288 Rs 295
Acid trip

Saturday 12 September '09

A debut novel grapples with the narrative of addiction....
The killer in KL

Saturday 29 August '09

A whodunnit captures the complexities of Malaysian society....
Open spaces

Sunday 30 August '09

A film on architect Balkrishna Doshi makes the legend come alive
Teen Mutation

Wednesday 12 August '09

On a regular day, Payal Dhar battles evil on Macbeth (that’s what she calls her MacBook), dawdles on the Web and does a good job of figuring out Eternity. It helps that she created it.
Teen Mutation

Monday 10 August '09

On a regular day, Payal Dhar battles evil on Macbeth (that’s what she calls her MacBook), dawdles on the Web and does a good job of figuring out Eternity.
Page Turner

Sunday 14 June '09

Dina Nath Malhotra has no patience for that old canard—people don’t read. His life and legacy are proof enough that they do.
Snow White in Tuscany

Sunday 14 June '09

The fairy tale gets socked into full-bodied life in Maguire’s hands
The Sound and The Fury

Sunday 31 May '09

The man who changed Bengali music forever is now a legislator. Kabir Suman, Member of Parliament and Kolkata’s most dogged rebel, looks back on a ‘political’ life
Reporting from Myanmar to a newsroom in Delhi

Sunday 24 May '09

Update 3 on the fifth day of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial reaches a newsroom in Vikaspuri just as the west Delhi suburb is slipping into another summer afternoon slumber.
For the RECORD

Sunday 24 May '09

A filmmaker goes in search of a lost song and finds Hindustani classical music’s blind spot— the tawaif
BOOKMARKED

Sunday 29 March '09

Yes, they read. Despite the distractions of a multimedia world, children in India’s cities are finding the stories they want to curl up with. Don’t even think Harry Potter
Oye Lucky

Sunday 22 February '09

The story goes that the casting director of Dibakar Banerjee’s Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye, rejected Manjot Singh for the role of the boy who grows up to be master thief Lucky.
CUT TO DELHI

Sunday 15 February '09

As a clutch of films with a Delhi address hits theatres, the capital finally gets some screen presence
The room of stories

Sunday 21 December '08

If you ask the grownups going about their business in the lanes of Mustafabad in east Delhi to direct you to your destination, they won’t be of much help.
Original soundtrack

Sunday 7 December '08

A new book reveals the life and worth of the anonymous musicians who made Bollywood’s golden melodies
Rubber brand

Sunday 23 November '08

Little Owen Kim, like all toddlers who know how to have a good time, would rather fling his toys around and watch the fun as Mamma gets hot and bothered.
FOOD, HIS STORY

Sunday 2 November '08

Revisiting the life of K.T. Achaya, scientist, historian and the man who first showed us the world on our platter
‘ALL THAT WE CAN DO IS GO AGAINST THE CURRENT’

Sunday 5 October '08

Anita Desai on the paradox of great literature and how her writing has changed through time
The missing plot

Sunday 21 September '08

It’s the most popular genre in the world. But why hasn’t the whodunit lured more Indian writers in english?
Ideas that travel the world

Sunday 14 September '08

A look at some books that may be on your future reading lists, and how historians are the public intellectuals of our time
At the cool new TERI campus, air-conditioners have gone underground

Wednesday 10 September '08

The seasons don’t exist four metres below the scorched earth on which we stand — where the temperature always hovers at a cool 25 degrees Celsius, whether it is a hot summer day or a bone-chilling night.
Sunset industry

Friday 15 August '08

The Convergys call centre, off NH8, is one of many buildings in Gurgaon that lay claim to a vision of modernity through their architecture.
Silly Point

Sunday 27 July '08

Chick lit meets cricket. But the length takes away much of the spunk
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