People Unlike Us

Sunday 10 March '13

A book that will change how you think of difference, parenting and commitment

The Man who Plans Cannes

Monday 18 February '13

Thierry Fremaux on why India is an honoured guest this year at the world''s most prestigious film festival

The Man who Plans Cannes

Saturday 16 February '13

Thierry Fremaux on why India is an honoured guest this year at the world''s most prestigious film festival

The Man who Plans Cannes

Saturday 16 February '13

Thierry Fremaux on why India is an honoured guest this year at the world''s most prestigious film festival

The zigzag artist

Sunday 10 February '13

Atul Dodiya''s free-form creativity forges art from cinema and politics, poetry and history. The artist on his many influences and why he refuses to settle into a style.

Dog Days

Sunday 27 January '13

Happiness is indeed a warm puppy.

The Body Artists

Sunday 6 January '13

The problem is not that the item song is sexy, but that it is designed solely to please unimaginative men.

Occupy Raisina Hill

Monday 24 December '12

The protest against rape is a howl of anguish, not a charter of real demands

On the road

Sunday 2 December '12

As I contemplate moving house and adding an hour-plus to my daily commute, I''ve started noticing traffic very acutely.

'Striking the right balance between modernity and heritage is complicated. We try to find the balance''

Sunday 25 November '12

Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director General, speaks about conservation in times of globalisation, of freedom of speech and expression and UNESCO''s adjustment in the new world order.

Difficult Pleasures

Saturday 3 November '12

NW is an impressive formal experiment for Zadie Smith, but less fun than you might expect from her

'This East versus West narrative is just a construction of Western elites, a pep talk''

Sunday 26 August '12

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia, Pankaj Mishra''s new book, traces submerged strands of anti-colonial thought in Asia, exploring the intellectual journey...

Where the stress falls

Saturday 7 July '12

Even in a politically correct world, accents remain the one thing we feel free to mock.

The Epistolary Dilemma

Saturday 23 June '12

I''ve been reading Philip Larkin''s Letters to Monica, a book I coveted greatly, from reading the reviews.

The descendants

Sunday 4 March '12

There''s a flip side to "soft" nepotism, you never know the freedom of real self-reliance.

Curtains up

Sunday 19 February '12

Some people never get over the anxiety of facing an audience.

Bare Minimum City

Saturday 18 February '12

Katherine Boo takes you into the dreams and schemes, the decencies and selfishness of a Mumbai slum

Say You Care

Sunday 25 December '11

Why do people buy cards? It's not because they want to say how they feel. People buy cards because they can't say what they feel or are afraid to.

Message in a Bottle

Sunday 27 November '11

What keeps the prohibitionists going, generation after generation?

Something Old, something New

Sunday 30 October '11

In this time of gifts, of crackly packaging and new things, I''ve been preoccupied with the old and used.

A car of one''s own

Sunday 16 October '11

In parts of Saudi Arabia, women have been driven to defiance by a political-religious establishment that forbids them from taking claim of their own cars.

Cliches of the Imagination

Saturday 8 October '11

David Davidar''s new novel is a decent apologia for the publishing industry, but a failed work of fiction

Dare to Say 'I Don''t Know''?

Sunday 2 October '11

I don''t know" – why does it seem so rare and radical for someone to utter these three little words?

Schooled in elitism

Monday 19 September '11

Why are otherwise egalitarian people so obsessed with college hierarchy?

Work Unsigned

Sunday 11 September '11

We have a fairly fixed idea of intellectual property, there''s a gate and a name-plate around your imaginative labour.