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Echoes of a fake-believe world

The world is in your WhatsApp group

Ways of seeing

What is useful is knowing an artist's journey and what led him to work in a particular way, or shaped his ideas

Teen angst in 2018

Burnham's equal parts smutty, shameless and delightfully self-aware story is as fresh as the air in the Swiss Alps

By my own hand

We only need to see these awkward letters to know that what they say is urgent and deeply felt

Join the club

Over a period of time, most wine clubs tend to become fairly exclusive

Modi-industrialist issue: The hidden anxiety in PM's combative posturing

Modi doesn't easily let his rivals know their attack has left him worried, and usually takes time to respond; Did he reply hurriedly to Congress' charges this time, with elections drawing nearer?

A Chhattisgarh diary

Raipur station is clean: Swachh Bharat Abhiyan? I ask someone but they say it's always been clean

Age of unreason

The Oxford English Dictionary defines anti-intellectualism as hostility to intellectual reasoning. This is exactly what we are witnessing in India now

Mirroring the art of resistance

Nilima Sheikh's scrolls are, at once gigantic in their context and scale, but familiar in their connect and urgency

Kohli's final frontier

India have picked three spinners in their squad, which is odd given that this is an overseas tour

Childish play

Gandhi has been in the public eye for many years now, so it is baffling that he can still get up to the kind of antics he displayed in Parliament

Karnataka shows what Modi should most fear ahead of 2019 general elections

Congress, contrary to expectations, did not roll up and play dead. It swiftly organised a coalition with a smaller regional party to form a majority in the assembly

In-flight delight

Kingfisher Airlines used to provide in-flight entertainment in India a long time ago before it went belly-up

Wine matters and money

Wine consumption in India should by now have jumped to at least 50 million cases

Leading the swarm: What sets politicians apart from the birds and fish

Politicians try to be the leader fish, controlling the direction of the narrative and pulling the country along-except that they try to knock other aspiring leaders off their course as they go

Making Sashakt stronger

Realism essential for a successful plan to resolve bad debt

Under scrutiny

Auditors need to be reined in, but not through over-regulation

Incorporating art and artists

India's public sector has been known to offer employment to sportspersons

What makes a saint?

Indians use fancy titles to project their holiness. That is why Adityanath uses the prefix 'Yogi' and Das uses 'Acharya'

The stubborn journalist

Journalists back from conflict zones often come here to narrate their stories to others who can relate to what they have seen