Kashmir’s iron maidens

Wednesday 28 June '06

Why punishing the guilty in sex abuse scandal will mean more than justice

Tamatar times. Take ’em with a pinch of sauce

Sunday 25 June '06

Yessir-ji, I am your humble tomato, tamatar, thakkali parzham, Lycopersicon cycopersicum—call me what you will—at your service.

Truth is injurious to health. You could overdose on it

Sunday 11 June '06

Given the fact that Mr Mahajan’s vital parameters soon started functioning normally...

Doctor, teach thyself

Monday 5 June '06

India’s medical education places no premium on its social welfare dimension

Grading the PM,Gursharan style

Sunday 28 May '06

PMji (in some agitation): What if this leaks out, Gursharanji? What if you give me low marks and the BJP gets to learn about it?

End of Dravida history?

Monday 15 May '06

Possibly. But it is too early to bid farewell to the politics of revenge

Mamma, Si, We Did It Again!

Sunday 14 May '06

Oh you should have seen them, Mamma, Our Rahul and Priyanka. They were simply staordinario, excellent!

Durable Critique

Sunday 7 May '06

Amartya Sen’s work on gender inequality is too often underplayed

No fear of flying (strapped and standing)

Sunday 30 April '06

I believe Airbus designers in Toulouse spent almost an entire year studying the contents of a sardine tin.

Read the Nepal quake right

Friday 28 April '06

Two centuries of royal rule created the Maoists in the first place

Summa tension, these Tamil Nadu, app!

Sunday 16 April '06

See, I myself am simple Tamil Nadu voter, with simple-simple thoughts. I am telling you neere, directly, it is rumbam-rumbam, very-very, difficult to predict these elections, by God.

Women versus girls

Wednesday 5 April '06

The unasked question in the foeticide debate: what about the right to abort?

Is there a God? Only Google knows

Sunday 2 April '06

I empathise deeply with Deputy National Security Advisor Vijay Nambiar’s concern over Google Earth peeking at our military installations and bases.

Where have all the student leaders gone?

Sunday 2 April '06

ONE of the more curious sights of the Assam political scene are those of empty Guwahati mansions with grieving women.

How free can we possibly ever be?

Monday 27 March '06

Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum show how restraints on freedom in fact strengthen its benefits, says Pamela Philipose

We really bow-wowed ’em, Sergeant Harry reporting

Saturday 11 March '06

Woof, howdy! This is Sergeant Harry reportin’ on our Mission India. We knew we were in for some torrid times the moment we hit that New Delhi tarmac.

Varanasi is us

Thursday 9 March '06

IN that umbra moment after the blasts, when the television screens suddenly spewed out images of blood-stained floors, panic-stricken crowds and strewn personal belongings, a stone seemed to settle on the chest. It was at that moment that