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Vikram Johri: What film festivals offer

Vikram Johri: Decoding The Lunchbox

The Lunchbox is a beautifully executed paean to loneliness. Suicide and disease punctuate the narrative

Beyond the glitz

The death of innocent diversity

Insulting India

If Bollywood says you can have premarital sex with a steady girlfriend, then it's cool. If Bollywood thinks hopping boyfriends is bad, then it's not cool

Slums as Third-World exotica

Flying drama

Are air hostesses able to keep up the smile because they know that it's timed? That they merely have to do it for the next two hours until the flight lands?

Dhanda in the DNA

The stories of five businessmen highlight why Gujaratis are successful at doing business

Putting life away

One weeps for her, not simply because she had lived so little, but because she imagined that her life had to stand for something for it to have meaning

Different sins

Karan Johar's segment in Bombay Talkies is a lot of sound and fury, in contrast to Ira Sachs' Keep the Lights On, which is a quiet look at gay life and its anxieties and pleasures

The professor and the player

There is something disturbing about the sort of restrictions that gay rights advocates seek to impose on speech

Deathly tales

Writers, of all people, must find death damningly external, one event they can't negotiate

Lincoln, personal and political

It is impossible to watch Lincoln without noticing its umbilical affiliation to the gay marriage debate and the film's sly use of filmic techniques to drive home this point

Bring up the royal bodies

Hilary Mantel's vitriolic essay on the Duchess of Cambridge underlined her talents as a writer but otherwise served no purpose

Vikram Johri: The life political

Vikram Johri: From Earth to Planet Romeo

While earlier it was furtive encounters in cruising joints, now things are more regular. The leader among gay meet-up sites is one PlanetRomeo, based out of Holland

Vikram Johri: The politics of reading

It is important to approach fiction with a generous mind, with a sense of the softly possible, for it to bring you the greatest fruits

Bullshit Quotient

Ranjeev Dubey 'decodes' the Indian corporate, social and legal fineprint

Vikram Johri: Returning to faith

The idea of God is closely connected to the spiritual, the mysterious, the artistic, the unknown, the transcendent

The agonies of a whistle blower

Greg Smith expands his seminal NYT oped on dodgy practices in Goldman Sachs into a full length book