Agent Provocateur

Rushdie's Akbar isn't so great In the day's last light the glowing lake below the palace-city looked like a sea of molten gold. ...

Torch relay was a pathetic farce Early last week the popular news portal, rediff.com, carried a delightful story about how China’s men in bl...

Hungry kya? But there’s no food It’s been a week of disconcerting news. Events at home and abroad, along with grim predictions by those who ...

Lost evenings of Kaal Boishakhi There was no intimation of a storm when I left home for work last Thursday. It was only after I hit National...

Our liberty and future are at stake The resolution adopted by Muslim theologians representing the various schools of Islam at the All-India ...

India's Lajja: Taslima leaving for freedom Dissident Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has decided that rather than suffer solitary con...

Oh! Calcutta was disappointing Even during the Swingin’ Sixties, records of the times inform us that official London was quite stuffy and st...

OIC's sinister message The Organisation of Islamic Conference, whose membership is understandably restricted to 57 Islamic countries, at...

Artistic freedom yes, but not with Aurangzeb Artistic freedom in increasingly 'secular' India has come to mean the right to denigrat...

Khalistan, via US, Britain, Canada An artist's drawing of the Air India trial shows (L to R) accused Ripudaman Singh Malik holding a boo...

US too pushy with N-deal Americans want Indians to believe they know what's good for this country and are pushing for an early closure o...

Banning books doesn't work A book, an essay and a film have run into trouble in recent days. The Bundelas, to use a cliché, are up in ar...

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...