Amulya Gopalakrishnan

The celluloid closet

Don’t bring out your rainbow flags just yet. It’s a category mistake, like looking for Mona Lisa’s smile in a yellow emoticon, to expect any kind of g

Far from Shoreline

A gentle story of a singular Konkan family in Chicago

Let a thousand thoughts contend

The Party Congress held every three years is the highest decision-making body, which comprises elected delegates on the strength of the membership of

‘The wealthy in India need to do much more for the country’

Microfinance has been the hottest economic innovation of the past few years — even Natalie Portman and Benetton evangelise it.

What The World is Reading

Hilary Clinton “drew out the nation’s misogyny in all its jeering glory and put it where we could all get a good look at it...

City of strangers

They say life’s what happens when you’re busy making other plans. But sometimes in New York, life is what happens when you’re waiting for a table.”

‘The story about American decline is overdone’

Whatever else he got wrong, George Bush made one enormous strategic breakthrough when he repaired ties with India to counter China’s phenomenally...

What the world is reading

“This election is too big to be small,” claimed Bill Clinton before the Pennsylvania primary, but the six weeks leading up to it...

WHAT THE WORLD IS READING

Benjamin Wittes calls the disclosure of the Bush administration’s torture memo ‘less an exercise in news than archaeology’.

‘You don’t need experience to take on anything... Writing a novel is really the triumph of the dilettante’

For India, chilly and remote Norway is the equivalent of the Antipodes...

Who’s afraid of Micro-hoo?

Not so long ago, in the days when most of us had either Hotmail addresses or Yahoo mail, a Microsoft-Yahoo merger would have been a world-historic eve

India ranks 11th, China 48th on Global Integrity’s index

India’s anti-corruption laws score a thumping 100 on 100, but its citizens can’t bring themselves to trust the system.

For love or money

That was indie singer-songwriter Ani Difranco’s kiss-off to the mighty music industry circa 1995.