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Quiet champions of the south

There is a degree of civility, efficiency, cleanliness and cultural ease here that has all but vanished in the squalid, chaotic and rootless urban agglomerations of the Hindi heartland

A season of India-Pak spy thrillers

On both sides of the border, opinion is being bitingly vented on The Spy Chronicles

Who's afraid of Eva Peron?

As style statements and populist messaging, Indian leaders have long understood the importance of dressing up

India's lost generation

The world of WittyFeed is a far cry from the life of Moin Khan, an impoverished balloon seller in Ranchi, who saved money by milking cows to enrol in English-speaking classes

Rambo rides again

Analysts who optimistically believed Gujarat was a neck-and-neck race will soon be chewing the cud on how the caste arithmetic panned out, writes the author

Some insignificant men

Mr Kejriwal, and his former cohorts such as gave all hours access during their political campaign for the making of the film An Insignificant Man

Partition at seventy: A family story

Partition left 2 million dead, 12 mn displaced, thousands of women raped, towns and villages torched

India's insuperable bureaucracy

The administrative machine's expansionist notions greedily demand more

The politics of grievance

Provocative WhatsApp forwards by RWAs on 'terror of Bangladeshis in Noida' aggravated tension

The complicity in murder

The gathering at Jantar Mantar was neither politically orchestrated nor propelled by fury

Sunil Sethi: UP's shifting jigsaw

Were it a separate country, UP would be the sixth most populated in the world

Sunil Sethi: Best bookshelf of 2016

Some of the best reading were works of modern and contemporary Indian history

Sunil Sethi: Jaya's bitter success and succession

Though Ms Sasikala commands an immense fortune and many AIADMK MLAs, does she have Jayalalithaa's grit and charisma to succeed?

Sunil Sethi: More notes on notebandi

Demonetisation has pushed the bureaucracy - in this case the creaking, ill-equipped banking system - to breaking point

Sunil Sethi: My little black diary

The morning of November 10, when the demonetisation hit us, will go down in the country's history as Black Thursday

Sunil Sethi: Transition traumas

The transition from Cyrus Mistry to Ratan Tata and back again in the $100-billion empire is also about the return of the king, dissatisfied by loss of control to his anointed heir

Sunil Sethi: Culture wars, a twisted story

Surgical strikes and skirmishes don't just occur along or beyond the LoC; they're happening in the heart of the country's film capital

Parmeshwar Godrej: Dynamic doer

The author remembers Parmeshwar Godrej, a multi-faceted woman of style and substance who knew how to stay in vogue

Sunil Sethi: Political heirs and parachutists

Both the head of government Narendra Modi, 66, and 45-year-old Rahul Gandhi, the anointed heir of the main national opposition, are resolutely single

Sunil Sethi: 'Ye gods, what have we done to deserve this…'