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The Metro Magnet

arindam — Sat, 26 May 2012 06:58:01 +0000

Delhi’s upper middle-class has never cared before to be seen rubbing shoulders with the city’s plebeians who use public transport.

26 May 2012
BY: Amrita Tripathi

How My Conscience Was Abducted in Dantewada

arindam — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:25:30 +0000

The stench of corporate propaganda at a storytelling festival in a Maoist-dense area

19 May 2012
BY: Akshay Pathak

Reading in Sin

arindam — Sun, 06 May 2012 17:20:22 +0000

If sexual explicitness caused the most outrage in the early phase of book bans in India, there was a point after which it became almost entirely about religion

5 May 2012
BY: Arpita Das

The Guru Ambedkar

arindam — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:12:33 +0000

BR Ambedkar chose a religion rather than a political ideology to empower India’s Untouchables for a reason

28 April 2012
BY: Ananya Vajpeyi

The Gandhi Style Statements

arindam — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:55:34 +0000

Namrata Zakaria on the First Family’s enviable wardrobe, and why their sartorial sense matters so much

7 April 2012
BY: Namrata Zakaria

Finding Fact in Fiction

arindam — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:20:44 +0000

Real life intrudes on fiction all the time. Kalpish Ratna indulge in some literary detection as they search for clues to the true character of Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes’ life and movements

24 March 2012
BY: Kalpish Ratna

From Tagore to Thakur

arindam — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:14:03 +0000

Durga puja pandals have clay figurines of Tagore. As do Saraswati puja ceremonies. Parents buy their kids Tagore dolls. In a state where the Left dismissed him as too elitist, Sumana Roy observes the canonisation of the poet-educationist

17 March 2012
BY: Sumana Roy

Mimics and Models

arindam — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:44:54 +0000

Whatever Jane Austen might think, PD James’ Death Comes to Pemberley ranks among the finest examples of literary mimicry, a genre that has good reason to exist

25 February 2012
BY: Kalpish Ratna

The Big Lie of Sport

arindam — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:05:35 +0000

The notion that sport makes gentlemen out of men and promotes fair play is spin doctoring. A Victorian novelist called Thomas Hughes started it with Tom Brown’s Schooldays.

4 February 2012
BY: Mihir Bose

Has Pankaj Mishra Ever Been to South Dakota?

arindam — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:47:30 +0000

For a writer whose first book was a travelogue around small-town India, Pankaj Mishra seems strangely unwilling to engage with the complexities, or provincialities, of the United States.

10 December 2011
BY: Ethan Casey