Health Files

Sunday 24 June '07

How to wash your hands and other ways to understand medicine

No short-cuts to freedom

Thursday 31 May '07

Liberal intellectuals, who have come together to fight growing intolerance, must sidestep the traps

The story of Us

Wednesday 9 May '07

Away from the periodic battle between self-styled conservatives and progressives, lies a larger debate not yet joined. Urban India is changing fast and its anxieties and confusions are not being addressed

Not yet mainstream, no more on the margin

Saturday 21 April '07

Sanjaya Malakar was voted out of the television show American Idol. But before that, he won more than his fair share of media hype. What set him apart? His hair or his Indian-ness? America’s mounting interest in India or India’s growing sure-footedness on the world stage?

And So Many Asias

Sunday 18 March '07

Where does the heart of Asia lie? What values should inform Asian unity and cooperation?

The Guru marks a shift

Monday 12 February '07

Given the contemporary issues and ideological stances adopted by Hindi films these days, Bollywood demands to be taken seriously.

Justice is not an opinion poll

Friday 22 December '06

Jessica verdict vindicates people power. The exultation raises disturbing questions

Crowded Vision

Sunday 15 October '06

Ghose has a penchant for the quirky, but can’t pull off the plot

Kutch Captioned

Sunday 1 October '06

What the earthquake couldn’t level