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Beyond Business » Columns » Columns

Secret explorers

20 May 2013

Bookshops that arent really bookshops have an unmistakeable feel about them, like faux Italian cafes that serve butter chicken a la Tuscany.The ...

The more things change...

17 May 2013

For all its noise about gender equality, the media seems reluctant to overstep the boundaries of regressive social norms

Call the doctor, toll free

17 May 2013

"Is the vomiting accompanied by cramps?""The patient's in the second stage of labour. She is waiting under the tallest neem tree in Kishanpura ...

The family business

17 May 2013

Last year, Kabir turned to his diary of two decades ago to check how he'd fared against the goals he'd set himself - the serious as well as the ...

Returning to Anandamath

13 May 2013

If it were not for the refusal of Shafique-ur-Rahman Barq, BSP member of Parliament, to join in with the singing of Vande Mataram, I might never ...

The point of it all

10 May 2013

What we think of as "normal" is constantly evolving. Somewhere along the line, it became normal for people to prioritise work at the expense of ...

The professor and the player

10 May 2013

There is something disturbing about the sort of restrictions that gay rights advocates seek to impose on speech

When puppets do the talking

10 May 2013

I walked into the cavernous, dark room and drew back with a start. In that imperfect light, there were hundreds of eyes looking at me. Some were ...

The 'small' party showbiz

10 May 2013

What defines a "small" party in Delhi, an intimate gathering of friends, what a hostess might describe as "casual"? "That would be 50 heads," ...

Men who tell stories

10 May 2013

In this column last fortnight, I wrote about a film - Lessons in Forgetting - that centred on a protective father and his free-spirited ...

The unchaste page

06 May 2013

The reading was at a sedate mela; literature was tucked in sideways, in between the food stalls and the sellers of heavy machinery. Jeet Thayil ...

Reformatting social attitudes to sex

03 May 2013

A ban on porn will be unenforceable and a waste of resources. What may work is the government selecting, grading and promoting porn that ...

The unbearable lightness of let-down

03 May 2013

As we struggle through nearly two months of intense summer before the monsoon arrives in right earnest and brings relief, an undercurrent of ...

The granny dentist of Tilonia

03 May 2013

Whenever I used to think of dentists, tall males with impressive degrees, grimly doing their worst, oblivious to one's screams of agony, would ...

Spoilt for choice

03 May 2013

It starts as breakfast is being laid. "I've boiled eggs for everyone," the cook says. "I'd prefer pancakes," my daughter sulks. "Fruit," demands ...

Bayern rises in India

03 May 2013

Bayern could well be the next Manchester United, especially in the Indian context

The third voice

01 May 2013

The comment that our normally mild-mannered and scholarly prime minister was reported to have made in an interview with Science magazine, that ...

A is for Apple: where universities fail

29 Apr 2013

Back in my day, which was of course when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Delhi University suffered from a serious case of envy.It had the St ...

Help yourself to get filthy rich

26 Apr 2013

With the cunning of a master thief, Mohsin Hamid in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia has stolen the form of a self-improvement guide with ...

Treasure hunt

26 Apr 2013

What happens to children who never find their way home, or who do after an interim, is symptomatic of a society so violent that violence is

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