Pratik Kanjilal
The writer is Associate Editor.
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Speak easy: To Lucknow, With Love
The disarming whimsy of Constantia provides a very real backdrop to I Allan Sealy’s iconic Trotter Nama.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020In the Moment
The settings are located in upper middle class India, and they explore the familiar while keeping an eye out for the unexpected.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Breaking down news: Hitting the High Notes
When you have the public in a full Nelson, to choke up yourself is conspicuous self-indulgence
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Blame it on Panditji
Historic blunders? Universities that ask too many questions? That dratted secularism? It’s all his fault. Nehru did it.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Breaking Down News: The Thing of Horror
That transition was dramatically visible in Stephen Colbert’s show where, among others, Stevie Wonder had come to urge people to vote liberal – as King had been doing on social media.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Breaking down news: Now the nation knows
Apparently, this relish-laden phrase was the refrain of an hour-long speech, in the course of which he threatened to give grief to the BBC and CNN via a new independent venture.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020How to translate a warm welcome into Hindi
Is translation an act of surrender or a non-violent Darwinian struggle?
Thu, Nov 05, 2020The Gods must be crazy
The future is here. Yuval Noah Harari tells you what you need to pack for the journey.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Breaking down news: The Third Word War
US presidential debates always gather global eyeballs, but the third grudge match of this years’ campaign must be the first to reach such huge populations over the internet
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Breaking down news: Who will bell the bully?
Pakistan’s press has united in a show of solidarity as the government and military are losing face and muscle
Thu, Nov 05, 2020In the news: This is another poem
Even if we exclude those chart-topping yet execrable lyricists who close off their lines with “ooh, yeh”, a red flag indicating that their vocabulary has failed their sense of rhyme, there are many.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Bob Dylan: This time, Nobel’s ‘ideal direction’ is music
The Nobel Committee has picked Bob Dylan — a choice probably not as radical as it appears at first glance, though it has shocked purists. Tagore’s Gitanjali was a song book — and it won the Nobel in 1913
Thu, Nov 05, 2020
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Skin Allergies In Children – What parents need to know?
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MPs, MLAs can practice law during their elected tenure: SC
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Kerala priest forced to revoke ban on nun who joined protest
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Kashmir: Three policemen kidnapped, killed by militants in Shopian
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H Raja does it again: Why the BJP leader finds himself in another soup
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Four days before Vijay Mallya flew out, lawyer told SBI to move court, stop him
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Srinagar businessman gets bail in Kashmir terror funding case
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Surgical strikes 2016: How leopard urine helped Indian soldiers
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Mayawati ruffles Congress feathers by blaming UPA for fuel price