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Business and Politics

Signs Of The Modern Times

As the friction accelerates between the Centre and the Kashmiri leaders in the  Kashmir Valley, how I wish two veteran journalists were still around, in our midst, writes...

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Powerful People

A Woman of Letters

“I am reading Amartya Sen’s book nowadays”, says a sprightly young voice at the other end of my telephone line: Janaky Sreedharan That is an eighty six yea...

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Powerful People

The First Prime Minister of India

A day after Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru’s birth anniversary, also known as Children’s Day in India, we recall his leadership; the highs and the lows. In the 35 years...

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Thought Factory

A Bouquet of Talks

This is a bouquet of assorted fragrances, writes Aparajita Krishna These are narrations that are independent of each other and yet appear to me to be tied with a common threa...

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Business and Politics

MOGAÉ: JOINT VENTURE WITH VERSA

VERSA India will be a fifty-fifty joint venture between VERSA and Mogaé Consultants, owned by Sandeep & Tanya Goyal. World No. 1 Voice & Conversational AI Age...

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Alternative Entertainment

Oh Rajasthan!

A photo-essay by Vatsal  Shah of the former royal state of Rajasthan, where tourists and photographers flocked during the winter in the pre-COVID times. As winter sets i...

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Thought Factory

Democracy Hypocrisy

Should we not apologize for having denied MF Husain his right to freedom of speech and expression, writes Vinta Nanda Since the present Indian government has supported Franc...

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Kaleidoscope

From here to eternity

Nidhi and Sushil Poddar talk to Khalid Mohamed about their book Blaze…, a tribute to their late son Divyansh’s tryst with life in the face of a terminal illness. ...

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Business and Politics

Of surrogate ads and liquor brands

A couple of weeks ago I had written an open letter to the chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) pointing out to him that there is gross and rampant vio...

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Powerful People

Bansi Kaul: Rang Bansi!

He is the chronicler of the theatre of clowns, acrobats, painted faces and laughter, writes Aparajita Krishna Bansi Kaul, a NSD (National School of Drama, Delhi) alumni who g...

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SUCHITRA SEN: THE STAR WHO CHOSE SILENCE

On her 12th death anniversary, Monojit Lahiri recalls the mystique, magnetism and unmatc...

January 22 2026

REVIEW: HAPPY PATEL - KHATARNAK JASOOS IS BIG ON INTENT, LIGHT ON LAUGHS

The actor-director’s spy spoof aims for absurdist satire but collapses under stere...

January 21 2026

POWERFUL PEOPLE: 55 YEARS ON, MERE APNE’S RELEVANCE

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with the indefatigable poet, lyricist, story-script-write...

January 20 2026