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

‘All stories are about people, their struggle to live, to make sense of life’

Sunday 27 July '08

Eight novels and several short stories later, Shashi Deshpande has written her first love story, In the Country of Deceit. In an e-mail interview, the low-profile author spoke about her early days of struggle and what it is to be possessed by stories

PULP WRITES BACK

Sunday 20 July '08

From K-confessions to cricket romance, snappy tales from new India are taking a burst of first-time authors past the bestseller mark. It’s time to say hello to Indian popular fiction in English

City of Gens

Sunday 22 June '08

With its malls, office and residential complexes lit up by generators and its roads clogged with utility vehicles, Gurgaon is a city running on diesel

‘Languages seep into each other, form each other. They are like people’

Tuesday 17 June '08

One of the most scholarly writers of our time has written possibly his most entertaining novel, ‘Sea of Poppies’.

SERIOUSLY COMICS

Sunday 8 June '08

We can’t say it has arrived, but the graphic novel in India is walking down many interesting paths

SPELL CHECK

Sunday 18 May '08

A 30-year-old magician brings street magic to Indian television. But Ugesh Sarcar is yet to pull off the TRP trick

Roots helped fight apartheid: Natal’s first woman lawyer

Tuesday 30 October '07

Navenethem Pillay, Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, knows what it is to live and fight in unjust times.

Mall wonders

Sunday 27 May '07

Born into brand-dom, raised in malls, they are the new faces of consumerism. Age is no bar for this growing breed of market-savvy brats when it comes to buying what their hearts desire.