Pakistan’s 50-year self-destruction in blood-feud with India & how Imran Khan can halt it

By Shekhar Gupta

There are two challenges when you talk about Pakistan today. First, whether you focus on the history, geography or politics. And second, whatever tack you choose, where do you…

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Beyond Words : What things can (perhaps) tell us – A Straight Talk

By Neil MacGregor



Our understanding of human pre-history is completely dependent on the material objects we uncover at archaeological digs. We attempt to reconstruct complex societies based on designs on a shard…

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On Stage

By Anil Dharker

“Does a thousand-year-old sculpture worshipped in a thriving religion belong to a foreign museum or to the temple from which it was extracted?” That`s Shashi Tharoor in his Empire-bashing…

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Goodbye 2018!

By Anil dharker

How do you define a year? A good way is to look at the buzz words that dominated conversation over its 12 months.

The buzziest word was Disruption. We saw it…

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Ayodhya: The disingenuity of Shiv Sena leaders; then and now

By Sujata Anandan

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut is being disingenuous in claiming that it took only 17 mins for the Sena to bring down the Babri Masjid just like Bal Thackeray…

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Mumbai Notebook

By Anil Dharker

The word ‘legend’ is too loosely used, but no one will dispute that Alyque Padamsee deserved to be called that. Not once, but twice over.

First, of course, as an…

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Mumbai Notebook

By Anil Dharker

‘Judicial overreach’. It`s a phrase heard often, and I have written articles on it, as has every single columnist in the land. With some justification too, because the courts,…

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TEA WITH THE AUTHORS EVENT AT TAJ

By Tata Literature Live!

The Taj Mahal Palace & Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest bring to you an afternoon to remember.

TEA WITH AUTHORS!

Here’s your chance to be in conversation with your favourite…

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Ram Temple issue: Now the saints will come marching in!

By Sujata Anandan

As the RSS-BJP’s initial expectations to build Ram Temple were dashed by the SC decision to defer hearing to January, Sangh Parivar will now outsource the Ram Mandir agitation…

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Literature Live MyStory Contest Winners – Prose

By Anam Fatima (Jury Choice)

I wrote this piece for children. It is dedicated to all the differently abled and to all the people associated with these beautiful human beings. It is dedicated to…

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Literature Live MyStory Contest Winners – Poetry

By Prakhar Pathrikar (Jury Chosen)

The City by Prakhar Pathrikar (Jury Chosen)

I hear this city.
It’s puffed sighs on an empty belly.
Wind chiming dreams and responsibilities together,
spooking timid titanium hearts from behind.

I gush through these…

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Campus Contest Results 2018

By Warren D’Silva

Story and Poetry Writing Contests were held at Hinduja College in South Mumbai and St Andrew’s College in North Mumbai  and were open to students from all over the…

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On Stage

By Anil Dharker

If you are a famous person – and many of you who read this column are really well-known – would you like a film done on your life? That`s…

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The Man and the Mahatma

By Zareer Masani

JAMES BOSWELL’S LEGENDARY biography of Samuel Johnson was based on first-hand experience of living, working and travelling with the great man for most of his life. Ramachandra Guha, denied…

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Mumbai Notebook

By Anil Dharker

You may or may not know that the National Ease of Living Index was released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs last month. Now that you know,…

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The Modi government is the most faceless, nameless & talent-averse India has seen

By Shekhar Gupta

The Modi government has run out of intellectual capital and this explains its stall in key sectors and fading momentum.

Let’s set it up with three questions. Is the Narendra…

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The Presidential Prime Minister Narendra Modi

By Ashwani Kumar

PM Narendra Modi in the Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort | Source : @narendramodi
There is an unconventional makeover of parliamentary democracy underway in India with PM-President Narendra…

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Section 377 Ruling: Pride Restored, Judiciary No More an Iron Cage

By Shashi Tharoor

Nearly seventy-one years after adopting one of the world’s most liberal constitutions, India can finally celebrate the expunging of a nasty colonial-era provision in its penal code, Section 377,…

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