Agent Provocateur

To save tigers, halt Arabisation Bon Bibi and Shah Jongoli It's been a bad week for tigers. A pregnant tigress, which had strayed into a...

Nothing unique about Mumbai The deplorable assault on 'North Indians' and 'South Indians' in Mumbai, Nashik, Pune and other ...

Days and nights of the forest A still from Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri, based on Sunil Gangopadhyay's eponymous novel Some year...

Why Godse killed Gandhi Sixty years after the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a 'mahatma' to many but really a cunning ...

Life is cheap, so are organs Everybody, including our politicians who cannot look beyond their snotty noses, will feign great shock and horr...

A chicken and egg story Lost cuisine: Bengalis have discarded their Bangaliana In Purnima Thakur's delightful little book, Thakurbari...

French award for Taslima: But India won't allow ceremony Dissident Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, winner of this year's Simone ...

Nuclear Egypt? Quite possible Egypt's ruling elite loves to see itself at the centre of West Asian politics; for the Presidential Palace...

How US helps fund jihad American Government and military officials have told The New York Times that much of the aid provided by the Bush Ad...

Tata has made India proud Friday's newspaper headlines said it all. It's small, it's snazzy, it's green, it's safe, it...

In India, but not at home! Barbarians at the gate It was waiting to happen all these days and it happened on New Year's Day. Nobody quit...

There's little to feel cheerful Snooty Mumbaikars tend to look down upon Delhiites as Philistines (no offence meant to Palestinians) who...

Bhaalo theko, Ashok'da Ashok Saikia, who passed away on December 30, 2007, was a self-effacing man with a large heart. He cared for eve...

Kanchan Gupta / Essay / November-December, 2008. Part I US President Barack Hussein Obama’s utterances on Jammu & Kashmir, indicating t...