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Sunil Sethi: In Seelampur with "Har Har Modi"

It may not have been a 'big show', but it was showtime all right

Sunil Sethi: The changing face of election campaigns

Directly interpersonal exchange between contestant and voter has all but vanished

The polarisation of western Uttar Pradesh

Just under surface, there is a poltical churn taking place in ten constituencies

'Somebody who brought a smile to people's lips'

Renowned author, journalist Khushwant Singh dies at 99

Sunil Sethi: Will 2014 change Parliament's profile?

Sunil Sethi: Mr Modi's strengthening flavour

Sunil Sethi: The boy who cried 'Wolf, wolf!'

Arvind Kejriwal's anti-corruption campaign made him a hero, but now that the political movement is a party in power, wielding the jhaaru is proving to be a cumbersome business

Sunil Sethi: How to short-circuit tourism

State governments lack the zeal in planning and upgrading the basic infrastructure of roads and transportation to scale up India's tourist economy

Breakfast with BS: Gloria Steinem

The essential feminist

Sunil Sethi: Long live the nanny state

Sunil Sethi: Delhi's triumph and trouble

The trouble with Delhi is that too many important people live here; its complex power structures and labyrinthine bureaucracy are so well entrenched that navigating the jungle will be the AAP's bigges

Sunil Sethi: The best bookshelf of 2013

This was a rather better year for non-fiction than fiction. That exciting serial known as history, as a form of storytelling, yielded a rich and varied crop

Sunil Sethi: What Goans THiNK of Tarun Tejpal

The change of government in Goa changed THiNK's character. Literary or intellectual luminaries were replaced by big-ticket celebrities

Sunil Sethi: Snoops, sneaks and eavesdroppers

The digital age has turned sections of the ruling class into instant sneaks or snoopers

Sunil Sethi: The guns of November 2008

What distinguishes 26/11 from other bombings in big cities, for instance 9/11 in New York or 7/7 in London, is that it remains the best-documented attack in a digitally enhanced world

Sunil Sethi: Here come the gold diggers … again!

The Unnao gold hunt is an exercise in softening Hindu sentiments in the bigger dig for votes in Uttar Pradesh in 2014

Sunil Sethi: Who will put the heart back in Bangalore?

Once graceful, green and temperate, Bangalore's fall has been the most precipitous among Indian metros

Sunil Sethi: Our terror, their terror

With rampant political corruption, tribal conflicts, a mountain of financial debt and ill-starred military intervention in a neighbouring country, Kenya's terrors come close to India's nightmares

Sunil Sethi: River journeys and channel crossings

Imagine how dramatically India's interstate relations or ties with neighbours would improve if its languishing river journeys and channel crossings were revived instead of being allowed to perish

Art on the water

So much of contemporary art revolves around cults of the young and use of new media that it is unusual to see the singular pursuit of an older generation to make sense of their turbulent world