All resemblances are not coincidental

Thursday 19 March '09

The eerie similarity between Sanjay Gandhi and Narendra Modi’s visions of order

A tale of two cities

Wednesday 25 February '09

Delhi-6 can teach Slumdog Millionaire a thing or two about Indian aspirations

Never on a Wednesday

Saturday 13 September '08

The prelude of publicity for the film A Wednesday was impressive.

In the name of terror

Friday 8 August '08

Times of terror often become times of intolerance. A diversified society suddenly behaves in terms of homogenous...

Lives of the mind

Friday 16 May '08

The idea of the public intellectual demands a roll call of honour. Intellectuals like Noam Chomsky, Marshall Sahlins...

The City as Drama

Saturday 19 April '08

Raj Thackeray and Amitabh Bachchan have become inadvertently competing models of the city

Delhi cannot hold

Friday 28 March '08

I think the message of the information technology revolution and the rise of the regional parties has been lost on us.

The value of rant and rave

Friday 7 March '08

The recent strictures passed by the Supreme Court on the lawyer Teesta Setalvad raise a whole gamut of questions.

Once more, with intensity

Wednesday 26 December '07

Bollywood has a special understanding of fantasy and reality. In it, cinema and reality don’t separate themselves...

Why Modi must go

Friday 14 December '07

The drama of democracy has been intense and it is a moment when report and analysis merges with wishlist and fantasy. This essay is in the form of a plea and an argument.

Mayawati in Modiland

Saturday 6 October '07

Mayawati has announced that the BSP will field candidates in all 182 assembly constituencies of Gujarat. The party currently has no representation in the assembly. What if Mayawati, fresh from her unprecedented success in UP, were to become a protagonist in Gujarat?

Only Modi

Friday 17 August '07

Opposition can only be internal to the Modi frame. The Modi juggernaut can only slip on a banana peel of its own making...