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  • May
    15

    Tap the public mood on food

    If there is one mistake a politician or a public figure cannot afford to make these days, it is the food faux pas.

  • Apr
    26

    Clean players in a dirty game

    Did Alex Paul Menon take his cue from Ernesto Che Guevara and The Motorcycle Diaries?

  • Apr
    12

    Death by gender

    A battered, bitten and burnt baby battled for her life in Bengaluru. Sounds like a crass tongue-twister but was a real life horror story

  • Mar
    29

    One tablet at a time

    Everyone knows how Bollywood has helped popularise Brand India. Perhaps, less well-known is the fact that India’s vaccine and drugs

  • Mar
    15

    Today, the atlas shrugged

    History is about chaps, geography is about maps. This may sound like a tweet-savvy academic in a chirpy mood

  • Mar
    01

    Help Pakistan walk polio-free

    What brings India and Pakistan together? The usual stuff, of course — colonial legacy, cricket, Track II diplomacy, peaceniks

  • Jan
    31

    India’s slip & slide act

    When the rich and powerful of the world gather at an alpine ski resort, and the conversation turns to topics like “Is Capitalism Failing?”

  • Jan
    17

    The Google delusion

    National harmony, national integration, national interest. Words like these typically pop out of school children’s civics textbooks

  • Jan
    03

    It’s time India got smart

    If the Mayans were right, and we are headed towards the end of the world in 2012, then let the tuneless among us start practising

  • Dec
    20

    Internet is calling. Where are you?

    As 2011 draws to a close, dire predictions are being made about India’s future.