The compound word ‘whistleblower’ has begun to have a peculiarly forceful resonance in our daily lives, which hide in their humdrum ordinariness the...

Ananya Vajpeyi, undoubtedly one of the best young intellectuals in India at present, embarks on an ambitious journey in her brilliant and extremely...

Hosted by organisations at the forefront of what is being variously touted as ‘philanthropy with a difference,’ ‘strategic or targeted philanthropy’,...

It barely took three days for a heady cocktail of military overdetermination and popular will springing forth from millions of Egypt’s homegrown...

It barely took three days for a heady cocktail of military overdetermination and popular will springing forth from millions of Egypt’s homegrown...

Farrukh Dhondy’s latest novel London Company (Hachette, 2012) makes for a mesmerising exercise in exploring the ‘uses and abuses’ of English by the...

As the 24X7 Indian news media extracts its pound of flesh from Narendra Modi, who, in a decision bordering on affront and sheer disregard, gave his...

It cannot be decided convincingly whether Ashis Nandy is the stalwart forerunner or the resolute and defiant backbencher of the various schools of...

Whether Edward Snowden receives asylum in Bolivia, Venezuela or Nicaragua or not, whether he meets the same fate as the world’s...

The ghosts never go away, of the pasts, of memories, of abandoned and discarded parts of oneself, of awkward details lingering from silenced familial...

The beginnings can be ominous, but chance, and not choice, with a bit of ‘self-help’ can get you out of the rut. Provided you realise that it’s a rut...

Much like the ‘hysterical woman’ of the 19th century – in other words, the woman who, in flagrant violation of the idealised Victorian norms of...