Why Great Men Worship Light of Asia

Count among The Light of Asia's many, many admirers over 132 years: Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, Nehru and Ambedkar, Tolstoy and Kipling, Yeats and Eliot, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev and C V......

Albert's Hopeless Hall in Jaipur

'The entire display is a lesson in how to turn a mountain of a collection into a molehill, notes Anjuli Bhargava after a visit to the Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur. IMAGE: The Albert Hall Museum in......

2019 election and the brown man's burden

'The anti-India biases of the Western elite can be attributed to the unease these privileged nations feel at the rise of Asian nations like India and China.''But what ought to shock all......

Revenge may win you an election. But will it deter your enemy?

'The travesty of recent Indian strategic thought is it emerges not from our brains, but from whatever part of the anatomy that secretes the prickliest hormones,' says Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: A......

Nobel, Dylan and the twilight of authority

The Nobel follows a line of mighty brands that have bent low to kiss the feet of the popular, says Itu Chaudhuri. 'The Nobel Committee has won the Bob Dylan Prize,' announced the Always Contrarian......

Onboard the amazing Tiger Express

Get ready for a great safari across some of the best national parks in the country, courtesy the Indian Railways. Image: Tiger Express set for a majestic ride. Photograph kind courtesy: IRCTC......

India's coolie economy

The government must undo the damage inflicted by the flawed policies of globalisation, and India should be converted into a country where entrepreneurs can thrive and the entire population can......

Cut yourself a good deal

One of the advantages of an economic downturn is that there are great deals around. The challenge is that many of us are bad at negotiating. Here, there is clearly an element of nature versus......

Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway Review: Rani's Screechy Ode To Motherhood!

Instead of feeling her desperation, despair or extreme acts stemming from a mother's primal need to protect her brood, what comes through is hollow theatrics, feels Sukanya Verma. If feeding one's......

Mowgli: Not for kids. Or adults

A worn-out fantasy of shallow wisdom and unspectacular effects, perhaps it's time to close the book on the Mowgli legend, feels Sukanya Verma. Baloo is no longer fun and fluffy. And Kaa is nicer......

Christian Bale, Andy Serkis meet Bollywood

Are you ready for Mowgli? It was a rare sight to see two centres of film-making -- Hollywood and Bollywood -- share the same stage to talk about Netflix's Mowgli: The Legend of the Jungle, Andy......

Coming in October: Freida Pinto in Mowgli

Mowgli is a darker take on Rudyard's famous story. IMAGE: Freida Pinto plays Messua in Mowgli. Another version of the Kipling classic, The Jungle Book, is on the way. This one is called Mowgli,......

Kohli aims to 'keep things simple' in WTC final

One game over five days isn't going to reflect how we are as team: Kohli Photograph: Kind courtesy BlackCaps/Twitter India captain Virat Kohli on Thursday asserted that one Test match is not......

India's Greatest Win

What happened at the Gabba on January 19, 2021 now sits at the pinnacle of India's most significant Test wins, declares Faisal Shariff. IMAGE: The Indian team celebrates with the Border-Gavaskar......

I knew it would be a difficult tournament for me: Halep

Simona Halep of Romania walks off after losing her Ladies Singles first round match against Jana Cepelova of Slovakia at the Wimbledon. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images Simona Halep lost her......