Shoot First, Mumble Later

Anna Hazare rules the village of Ralegan Siddhi with unquestioned authority. He forces meat eaters to turn vegetarian; has men who drink liq...

The first time I attended a demonstration, I was struck by an odd fact. Most of the audience was poor, composed of party members trucked in ...

Some of India's best thinkers have written about the Anna Hazare movement, and now Amitav Ghosh joins the group with this article in th...

On the flight I chat with a woman who works with ONGC, in finance. She's deeply sympathetic to the Lokpal campaign. She cites problems O...

I dined at the Mayfair Hakkasan two years ago courtesy of Dinesh and Minal Vazirani of Saffronart. It was after a discussion on 'Junctur...

Aarakshan (spoiler warning) is two films in one. The first half is about quotas in education, caste rivalry, and the debate about what co...

Shammi Kapoor had fun in front of the camera. He endowed films with a lightness and joy that even Dev Anand couldn't match. Dev Anand ...

The British government has spent over half a billion pounds on street cameras, and London has perhaps more CCTV cams than any other city on ...

I was in Calcutta earlier this week, and landed needing to use an ATM machine to recharge my phone, and pay my credit card dues, which I inv...

When Indian reporters question visiting Pakistani politicians about the Kashmir issue, they usually assume the Indian establishment's po...