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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

The Man Who Aced CAT Six Times

arindam — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:14:23 +0000

The founder of Mumbai’s Quoin Academy has aced the Common Admission Test six times in as many years. But he neither prepares for these tests nor wants to join a B-school

12 May 2012
BY: Patrick D’Souza

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 Man Who Wanted to Wed 500 Times

arindam — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:14:09 +0000

Holder of world records for the most flags tattooed on his body, most straws stuffed in his mouth and longest non-stop scooter journey ever, Guinness Rishi explains his need to break and set new records

21 April 2012
BY: Guinness Rishi

Moby Dick’s Avenger

arindam — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:23:39 +0000

Once, he sailed on ships that carted oil and timber around the world; today, Siddharth Chakravarty prowls the high seas in search of illegal whaling ships to thwart

14 April 2012
BY: Siddharth Chakravarty

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

The Man Who Wore a Sanitary Napkin

arindam — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:08:34 +0000

Villagers saw him cleaning his undergarments stained with goat blood and thought he had a sexual disease. But Arunachalam Muruganantham was only trying to make a smart, cheap sanitary pad for his wife

31 March 2012
BY: Arunachalam Muruganantham

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