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It’s all about the money, honey

A new league hopes to bring IPL-like success to football

When victory is sweetmeat

Kolkata’s sweet tooth was spoilt for choice between a NaMo sandesh, Didi yoghurt and other ‘election mishtis’ churned out by a 129-year-old confectionery

No madness such as this

With the World Cup starting this week we meet some of its biggest fans, fanatics and promoters — all to be found, but of course, in the city of Kolkata

Film Fatale When a woman says no

When a woman says no

Despite all our differences, it appears we are a nation bound together by a love of films that legitimise, normalise, even romanticise stalkers

Cultured corners

Mumbai gets creative with a set of new, reimagined spaces

Singapore-born cartoonist Morgan Chua — whose brush weeps for what happened at the Tiananmen Square — warns of the dangers when a government turns its guns on its people in a graphic novel of the same name

Interpreters of maladies

For patients arriving from central Asian countries for treatment in India, a growing army of interpreters is at hand to smooth the linguistic bumps in their road to recovery

The slow unravelling

Rarely in contemporary literature has a home been placed under such a harsh light that its constituents have turned out to be merely flawed humans

Take no offence

Documentary maker Jaideep Varma on the importance of laughing at one’s self and why filmmaking is not rocket science

Cornerstone

Day in the city

Travelling with convicts and strolling in Central Park with friends

Not just a jugaad fix

A newsman elegantly captures the dismal forebodings for the India growth story, but arrives at an incomplete conclusion

Lay me down on a bed of ice

Steer off beaten tracks in the Swiss Alps and into the icy embrace of a friendly igloo village

A BUTTERFLY BREEZE FROM MP The number game

Before you rejoice, note the skewed equation of political will and greenhouse gases in India

Retired smart

As the 60-plus population surges in India, developers are designing unique spaces catering to the booming demand for assisted living — a lucrative ₹4,000-crore market

UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY The other men in the Valley

There is always more to a story than an empty house and more to a man than just his uniform

PAPERWALLAH How to write a protest poem

>How to write a protest poem by Janice Pariat: Click here to read the PDF ( Janice Pariat is the author of Boats on Land; >@janicepariat)

Jatt, Juliet and jameen

The story of new Punjabi cinema — where the jatt hero is no longer a farmer but a city slicker — tells of the decline of agriculture and a cinema fuelled by real estate money

Ben in charge

Long known as a Modi loyalist, the no-nonsense Anandiben Patel sets many precedents by becoming Gujarat’s fifteenth chief minister

What kind of car is this?

It can give you the thrills of a Ferrari and it can empty its innards in a royal courtyard

The mount of the mai-baap sarkar

The Ambassador was a perfect symbol of bureaucracy in the pre-liberalised Indian State, where neither speed nor acceleration were desired virtues

Green Humour

In-Faq Tough guys

It’s Clint Eastwood’s birthday today, and time for a quiz on tough guys. Enough said! 1 The citizens of the city state of Sparta were definitely the ...

THE COMPASS CHRONICLES Fish falling from clouds

Omens and legends aside, could it have been a surreptitious scientific experiment?

Fodder politic

That all eyes would be trained on the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan last week was a given. That all eyes would rest on its overladen tables was ...

MEAL TICKET Stew good to be true

Thirty hours after I had first started, the boeuf bourguignon, that sacred cow of French cuisine, a complex stew of beef and Burgundy wine, was finally ready

Making behenji cool

She might never agree to kiss onscreen, but she doesn’t mind being called ‘mera maal’. We meet Sonakshi Sinha, who has silenced critics and appealed to the box office