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Sunil Sethi: Goa's escalating land wars

Wherever you go in India's top tourist destination and playground of the well-heeled, you hear of nasty property disputes

The underbelly of new India

A Pulitzer-winning author turns four years of reporting in a Mumbai slum into a compelling story of tragedy and hope

Sunil Sethi: What hope and change can mean

Mr Obama¿s return endorses that an image of sincerity and integrity, a hard-won effort to overcome policy failure, matters more than political parentage

Sunil Sethi: Pride of the Bosphorus

There were plenty of vendors in Istanbul, but almost all were relatively well clothed, and not one was underage

Sunil Sethi: The new landed gentry

If the actual rather than hidden assets of India's rich were ever open to scrutiny, it would be apparent that the phrase 'absentee landlord' is now replaced by 'absentee industrialist'

Sunil Sethi: When leaders stop listening

Sunil Sethi: Salman Rushdie, alias Joseph Anton

Mr Rushdie¿s Joseph Anton is to be read, in part, as a treatise on the politics of intolerance, at a time when politicians construe umbrage, offence and insult over a cartoon

Sunil Sethi: Will masterji save his job?

The Indian market is huge but also a hugely complex, many-layered place. There is room for all, from Louis Vuitton to 'Ladies Tailor'

Sunil Sethi: The auguries of August

Like the auguries of ancient times that foretold the shape of things to come, the recent power outages could be an omen of looming darkness

Sunil Sethi: How to sell a kite

Fragile plaything, decorative memento or valued artwork - the digital revolution has transformed the way we look at, appreciate, evaluate, buy and sell art

Sunil Sethi: Downhill in downtown

Sunil Sethi: Simple tastes of summer

Sunil Sethi: A life of labels

Regardless of protests against the entry of multi-brand foreign retail chains, the big brands are a way of Indian life

Sunil Sethi: Manto's forgotten aspects

Sunil Sethi: The presumptions of heirs presumptive

Sunil Sethi: Schools of scandal, old and new

Sunil Sethi: Norway - A fjord too far?

Sunil Sethi: Off-key and off-queue

Sunil Sethi: The end of excess?

Sunil Sethi: The Jaipur juggernaut

The Jaipur Lit Fest has acquired the trappings of a glamorous prodigy. The curtain-raiser this year was replete with full-on maharaja regalia