Fear, myths and a disease

Sunday 17 February '13

Malwa region of Punjab shows how cancer has become an evil that thrives in a web of silences

Exclusive: Honey Singh - Sting

Sunday 13 January '13

Honey Singh''s music speaks to any man uncomfortable with the independent, modern woman.

Know your protester

Sunday 30 December '12

Unlike the protesters of yesterday, mostly Left and Gandhian, the crowds at India Gate are the children of liberalisation who just want the government to be fast and efficient

Maruti and the hookah economy

Sunday 29 July '12

The Manesar automotive hub near Gurgaon is a clattering, rackety gearbox of a culture where pastoral wisdom rides into technological imperative.

Blue doors of Delhi

Sunday 8 July '12

Old cities never die. They just fade away.

Ferraris, dope and misogyny in global village of Punjabi music

Tuesday 26 June '12

Popular, bawdy lyrics repeat feudal themes in cosmopolitan terms

Ferraris, dope and misogyny in global village of Punjabi music

Tuesday 26 June '12

Call it the political economy of music. Or the music of the political economy.

The tyranny of context

Monday 28 May '12

Looking closer at the Ambedkar cartoon and the power play in it

Metaphors of meltdown: The poet of money who saw it coming

Tuesday 30 December '08

Year 2008 will be remembered for the global financial crisis; maybe also for a poet who sang of what led to it