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Dravidian Century: A Paradox

Why did the greatest movement of the south fail to redeem its emancipatory promise?

If Not A Kiss, A Bear Hug

As the Russia bogey grips America, Trump slams the latest charges and names a close Putin friend his top diplomat.

Sasikala, A Jayalalitha or A Janaki Redux?

Sasikala, a Jayalalitha or a Janaki redux? That’s a million-dollar question for the post-Amma party.

It's the Economy, Cupid

The spectre of China ought to be dispelled by the prospect of business.

The Coming Caste Wars

The growing clamour for reservation to society's shrinking ability to fulfil the dreams globalisation unleashes

To Put Faith in Secularism

‘Secularism’ inhabits twin strands—one simply strives to control religion; another, more composite view, allows plural views on faith to coexist. Charting secularism’s progress in France and the US, Charles Taylor alights on the passionate debate it is generating in modern Europe and India.

Global Is Beautiful

The World Cup epitomises football at its very best—a unifying force in a world too often fighting against itself

Both Gold & Glitter

Messi and Neymar: two sides of football stardom, but their core lights the same way

To Beard A Boyar In Muscovy

A bickering world, quite rightly, gets Russia, the commonest bete noire, as host of its cup of life. Ah, but we mustn’t cavil. It might turn out to be fun after all.

Gali Gali Football Shootball

Following matches through radio static to plugging in—Indian fans have been steadfast as ever. But has the dazzle of European soccer held us in enthralled stupor?

Waiting for Mr Parrikar

The long absence of the CM and two key ministers has created a peculiar situation in Goa politics

Lay Of The Lost

Missing key to a temple storehouse opens a Pandora’s box

How To Grab The Key To Wealth Creation

Smartly balancing today’s and tomorrow’s requirements with the help of a sound financial plan holds the key to creating ample wealth for future needs.

Eat In And Keep The Taxman Away

GST has been largely neutral or beneficial for consumers, but ‘luxuries’ are a bone of contention.

RK Films Was Born With Raj Kapoor And Died With Him

Ranbir Kapoor is one of the biggest stars outside of the Khanate ruled by the Aamir-Salman-Shahrukh triptych in Bollywood. But his last few movies have not set the cashbox ringing at the box office, the ultimate arbiter of an artiste’s worth over a weekend in a cut-throat film industry. The 35-year-old actor now returns with a biopic on Sanjay Dutt made by a filmmaker with the Midas touch, Rajkumar Hirani, who has never failed in the past 15 years. In a freewheeling interview with Giridhar Jha, barely a few days before the release of Sanju, Ranbir discusses, among other things, the most challenging role in his career and why he does not want to spoil the legacy of R.K. Films by reviving the iconic banner founded by his legendary grandfather Raj Kapoor. Excerpts from the interview:

Anchor, Old Man And The Sea

After Arnab Goswami’s resignation from Times Now, a storm of what-next rumours.

Smog Capital Of The World: Delhi

What’s with the air in Delhi that a festival of lights plunged it into darkness? Can we read the signal in the smog?

Modi's Trump Card: Demonetisation

Demonetisation is a dramatic Modistroke. And well-timed too, ahead of crucial polls.

Clueless In Cash Country

Outside urban india, it is largely hard cash that has currency.

Loose Screws In The Tata Wheels

Behind Cyrus Mistry’s booting out was his doggedly independent action, and Ratan tata’s intolerance of it.

Teotwawki: Okay If We Confirm That Tomorrow?

What if the science of prediction is a fictive process and nothing more? Is the future, then, even if loosely knowable, specifically unpredictable?

Too Many Players In El Dorado

When Hollywood studios entered the Indian film market, they were being touted as the game­changers. Now, they are planning to quit the game they couldn’t quite comprehend.

Balancing The Wheel

With polls pending, Khaleda Zia in jail and Hasina pampering Islamists, Bangladesh is on edge

Hunger, Bloodthirst, Murder

An adivasi’s lynching sparks an artistic outpouring that only discomfits activists

AAP Among Unequals

Angry, Alternative Politics, they called it. But has AAP failed to redeem its pledge? Is it too angry, and not alternative enough?

Immovable And Rusted Objects

Obstructionist bureaucracy needs an injection of specialists

A Broom In The Wrong Place

There’s talk of President’s Rule, but, for better optics, the BJP will more likely let Delhi’s AAP government hoist itself with its own petard

A Party That Lost Its Fig Leaf

AAP grew overambitious; its leader anyway tended to be autocratic. The party’s slide began when it became unscrupulous. Will it reform its ways?

Scent Of The Lotus Bloom

It’s not just about dashing moves, their motive has to reach people. Modi knows it.

Broomstruck In Bathinda

Akalis are seen as useless amid economic distress; the Congress is patchily popular. It’s the AAP many in Punjab are turning to.