Page 132 - Opinion Specials

Getting into auction season

Four auctions in the space of just one month makes the eco-system for art consumption appear quite healthy

Shifting classes, shifting culture

One area that needs more study is how the entry of the hundreds of millions into low-income status has affected entertainment content

The writing on the bottle

Here are some of the best wine magazines

Cyber heists

Irumbu Thirai is a sober account of how our daily smartphone use can be our nemesis

What Citizen Pranab Mukherjee said, and didn't say, at the RSS headquarters

Mitali Saran has a go at decoding the former President's thought at Hindutva's bastion

Money power: From Sachin to Dhoni, here are India's richest cricketers

M S Dhoni loves to stock his garage with superbikes (22 at last count), and Virat Kohli does the same with luxury cars

Victory in Ireland

Those who campaign against abortions say that they speak for the unborn child

The Indian art ensemble

The Indian exhibit is set within this historicised parameter

Travel for travel's sake

The accusation that writer V S Naipaul makes against Indians is that they are inward-looking. He means that we don't observe the outside world

Rise of the Opposition

Will the Opposition's move to checkmate the BJP yield results? A year is a long time but the trends are not promising.

Translating Premchand's many moods

Premchand: The Complete Short Stories is a massive, massive project, its scale veering almost towards audacity

Sizing up Reliance Industries

A SWOT analysis shows what will work for RIL and what won't

Karnataka floor test or Royal English wedding? Well, both actually

Mitali Saran cleverly switches between sound and visuals to track two events aired simultaneously

Froth and bubble

The underlying theme in all the stories is the inherent human need for validation and recognition, and how some people are willing to go to any length to get it

Crusader with wit

Deadpool 2 is a prime example that more superhero movies must aspire to: woke rather than vapid and soulless

Superman hangs up his cape

Defining him as an explosive batsman was an understatement, for he changed that definition twice in six months as West Indies bore the brunt in 2015

The business of consulting

The digital darlings represent the school of creative disruption

For the love of Pinot

Pinots have been planted in cool wine regions around the world, principally in the US and New Zealand's South Island

Wanted: Real feminist men

Schneiderman's monumental hypocrisy, his rotten double life as a public feminist and a private misogynist, reminded me of another expose

'Here vomited Goethe'

This year is the 250th year of his birth, and Tübingen, a charming town southwest Germany where Hölderlin was once a student, is gearing up to celebrate the anniversary