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This is not a Russian poem

The letter's credibility had been challenged by a number of people, including Ferreira and Gonsalves

Not my Asia

Maybe it's too much to expect from one movie, but its muddled politics could be forgiven if the plot was any good

Wine and aphorisms

"Life is too short to drink bad wine" (anonymous). Absolutely true, and something I like to put into practice

Testing India's talent

The England- India series to me has been riveting because it has brought the bowler back into what has been turned into a batsman's game

Two PMs of different hues

The most crucial point of difference between the two leaders, may lie in their worldviews. Modi is willing to raise questions, that Vajpayee avoided

Angry gods

What Gurumurthy was referring to was the plea in the Supreme Court challenging the ban on the entry of women of menstruating age to Kerala's Sabarimala temple

Leaving a mark

Reddy, who died this week in New York, had been unwell for a while and had disappeared from public view, writes Kishore Singh

Reading Sita differently

Anita Sivakumaran's book is part of the tradition of women using the old and familiar myths and legends to tell their own stories

Family troubles

There is a bunch of secondary characters who help make this show sound like Game of Thrones for the C-suite, writes J Jagannath

What purpose will Modi's promise to put an Indian in space by 2022 serve?

For Modi, the project of putting a man in space serves as a nice symbol of the country's scientific progress, especially a few months before he faces elections

Where the spirit is freed

To increase demand, you have to make it easier to import or produce wine, as well as make it easier to sell the stuff

CHESS#1314

There are high hopes of a medal at the Batumi Olympiad where the Open Team will field Viswanathan Anand, Pentala Harikrishna, Vidit Gujrathi, Krishnan Sasikiran and Baskaran Adhiban

A legacy unfulfilled

Alonso's last race victory came in 2013, and he hasn't been on the podium since 2014. For arguably one of the best drivers F1 has ever seen, this is the very definition of a legacy unfulfilled

In style, in Bengaluru

Unlike poets of other languages, Indian poets working in English are in the unenviable situation of sharing a language but little else

When I was a boy, I knew Mr Naipaul

Bharat Bhushan writes of his experiences in Sir Vidia's shadow

Wonderful but brutal: V S Naipaul from the eyes of a friend, student

The strain of brutality that ran through his thought came from a desire to be unassailable, to never, as he would say, "fall into lies"

Britain's lone walk

A clean Brexit means that the UK will have to go back to the World Trade Organization and then set up from zero

Rule of the wild

When they are upon you and around you - menacing and feral and grinning because they know their power?

Anger on the streets

The burning of the Khandava forest for instance is an act of extreme violence, unforgivable within the epic's own moral code

The art of modern-day captaincy

Kohli is someone who has placed his foot on the accelerator and refuses to take it off