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Mobs of death

Majoritarian policies do the most damage when they fuel anger against the Other

Surjit S Bhalla: Can RBI's forecasts be trusted?

Fiscal policy is forced to be expansionary as monetary policy is failing to perform

Wine snobs

Imported wines cost two to three times more in India than in international markets

Globalisation is passe, normalisation has become the new world mantra

Nations are being made great again by reinforcing fences and enforcing cultural homogeneity with big spiky sticks

Big screen gloss

Not so surprisingly, biopics centred on women have been far more absorbing

A new age for open museums

The quite amazing retrospective on

It's only football

Germans have always been passionate about football. But seeing flags hanging from balconies was new

The 'best Indian food'

Bourdain thought vada-pao was so good that all other Indian food could be dismissed. He was not wrong

Bring on the lust

Lust Stories scores because it offers vignettes of reality in the lives of modern Indian women

The long road for Ireland

Ireland's 76-run loss to India in the first T20I was hardly surprising, but the gulf in quality between the two sides couldn't be ignored

Strife and grief

'Fauda' is very biased in its myopic view of Palestine while completely ignoring the ham-fisted way the Israeli state treats the Arabs

The vision mission exercise

Words matter only if they flow from the depths of intentions, when they have consequences

The theatre of democracy

Democracy, wisdom and war are linked in a complex web in ancient society

On Swiss time, with Delhi on the brain

Everything works! It's weird

Where are the great World Cup captains?

The modern game is a victim of individualism, where players acquire the status of superstars who often grow bigger than the teams themselves

The art of ordering the right wine

We Indians tend to look at the right-hand-side of the wine list, with the well-heeled ordering the highest-priced wines, while the more economically-minded go for the lowest-priced bottles

Ups and downs in the Railways

There are several chapters that transcend the personal and have insights about railway policy - dishonesty and falsification of records, safety and corruption

Call of the beard

The world would be an awfully boring place if most men went around with facial hair, says the author

Treasuring our past, their way

Among them are letters from Gandhi, documents related to Partition, including one that carries thousands of signatures against the move to divide the country, and other such crucial records

Small-town angst

In the second story, Ankush and his wife, Taruna - a survivor of child sex abuse - encounter a crisis that brings their relationship to the very edge, before a catharsis of sorts