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HOME SPUN Feels like two places

Feels like two places

In a city like Shillong, with its highly developed fashion sense, you are what you wear

Elephants in the room

Decoding the tenets of ethnoelephantology in South Asia

In India Inc, Gita is the new bible

Krishna is the new guru at B-schools and boardrooms across the country as companies look to the scriptures for management strategies

PRESENT IMPERFECT Stop the lies about parenting

Stop the lies about parenting

Let's be honest, parenting isn't all that it's cracked up to be.

Game of phones

While telecom operators shuffle and keep their cards close to their chest, the government watches its winnings mount... Here’s a behind-the-scenes account of the spectrum auction

Smile please

Are photographs the mirrors of our soul? Do they still conceal as much as they reveal?

Pasta perfect

It takes planning, and you can’t rush it, but making pasta from scratch can be as satisfying as cutting into an oozy egg ravioli

In our beginning, there was a boat

Author of Coolie Woman, Gaiutra Bahadur on why she chose not to write a novel and the burdens of the word 'coolie'

Capital as the nation

What happens when the media is used to massage the darbari’s ego?

Not a lower house

Why protests in and outside both the Houses constitute a natural progression and deepening of democracy in India

In-Faq

Thousands of crores would have been spent last night in India celebrating a Roman priest clubbed, stoned and later beheaded to death outside the ...

D for Digital

Creating comics and fans for the internet age

Threads of light

Contemporary art and innovation come to the fore at INSERT2014

Above ground

Theatre person Gabrielle Neuhaus on her onstage aerial journey

FILM FATALE Stop winking

Bollywood, don’t represent homosexuality through contempt, innuendo and silence

The old courtesan

Where’s the humour?

PUB CRAWL And the winner is...

Authors who sell, authors who tweet — the publishing world’s hot new favourites

The blooming dales of Bhutan

This heady little kingdom in the Eastern Himalaya comes alive every spring

Meat of the matter

A rough guide to Madikeri’s best (and humblest) tables

WINDOW OR AISLE How do you breakfast?

A first-time columnist gets picky about your food

Troubles in the Continent

Pallavi Aiyar combines reportage and memoir to show that Europe in crisis is a grim prospect

The everyman hero

Pran Kumar Sharma on creating Chacha Chaudhary the old man with a stick, who uses his brain to pack a punch

Us versus them

While other sportspersons dare to take on the associations, only the cricketers continue with, ‘Yes, Sir,’ ‘No, Sir’

LIGHTHOUSE A godless congregation

In Douglas Adams’s words, atheists prefer ‘the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance’

THE INVESTIGATOR I prefer to remain ignorant, says Nation

I finally locate the Nation in a homeless shelter under the Nehru Place flyover in Delhi, a makeshift affair made of bamboo and blue plastic sheets.

Add to c@rt… briskly

Firmly shaking off the ghost of the dotcom bust, the industry is confident e-commerce is here to stay and deliver

Freelancers refreshed

Mapping the many positive changes in the independent working sector

The ATM in my pocket

Mobile banking is the brave new face of financial inclusion

The raga Dude

The new tome on Carnatic music by TM Krishna establishes him as a distinguished musicologist of an ancient art form whose traditions he’s not afraid to test