All of us want a ‘Good Death’, but how many of us get the perfect one?
A “good death” would sound like a proper oxymoron, much like “good taliban” or “good terrorist”, if only it didn’t offer a commentary on its inherent fatalism. But it is …
A “good death” would sound like a proper oxymoron, much like “good taliban” or “good terrorist”, if only it didn’t offer a commentary on its inherent fatalism. But it is …
There are lots of fantastic things you can do on a Tuesday evening if you are not involved in the demanding duties of ‘desh bhakti’. You can have “plans” for …
Indira Gandhi is famously said to have labelled journalists as “glorified stenographers”. In Lutyens Delhi, anchors and presenters of brain-dead TV news channels are working hard to remove even the …
Jaipur Literary Festival, the mahakumbh of fiction lovers, is still a week away, but a gripping story of the “meteoric” rise in newspaper circulation across this glorious land of milk, …
Girilal Jain, the late editor of The Times of India and an early mover among journalists who saw India moving to the Right, once said that in India, “politics sets …
In today’s Andolana, the Kannada broadsheet newspaper from Mysore, appears this small, single-column advertisement on its last page. A dignified portrait, not looking into the camera, writ with decency and …
If there is one event that holds a mirror to the gargantuan socio-economic challenges confronting Bharat that is India, it must be a “mass marriage” where dozens of couples tie …
Before he set sail to India and then onward to England, where he rose to become one of the greatest investigative reporters of the 20th century at The Sunday Times, the late, great Phillip Knightley worked at a weekend tabloid newspaper in his home-country, Australia. This, of course, was when there was still something called […]
Karnataka’s west coast, for long a Hindutva laboratory in the South, is beginning to show positive results as assembly elections loom over the horizon. Barely a week goes by without …
Fact 1: The Indian National Congress is 132 years old. It has been in power for much of India’s post-independent history. Fact 2: The Indian National Congress is not short of …
More often than not, the stump mike provides greater insight of the tension in an ongoing cricket match, especially when the oratorical genius of Sunil Gavaskar and Sanjay Manjrekar, and heaven forbid, …
As the 2017 calendar ran out of dates and 2018 rolled in—as urban India prepared to “party into the new year”—a small village called Santheshivara in Hassan district of Karnataka …
Shashi Tharoor is like Kim Kardashian for a new breed of aspirational Indians trying to outgrow Chetan Bhagat. Whatever Tharoor says (or doesn’t) “breaks” whatever little echo chamber they inhabit on the internet. Be …
The Caravan magazine has a lengthy profile of mobile operator turned Rajya Sabha member turned media baron cum defence dealer Rajeev Chandrasekhar in its latest issue. The story breaks no new ground …
As 2017 was vanishing out of sight in the rear-view mirror, a tweet by the advertising man Lakshmipathy Bhat caught the eye: Ditto and likewise. As an unabashed consumer of …