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Soothing inanities of Delhi’s western dips

Samosas and chai beyond the yellow-and-black railway station boards of Mughal Sarai, Jhansi, Itarsi, Guntakal, Arakkonam, Jolarpettai and Shoranur

‘So why does the Jaipur litfest succeed in such spectacular fashion, when so many other festivals it spawned fold up within a year or two of their ambitious launchings?’

Žižek in Kochi: “Don’t be afraid, I’m on your side.”

Born in Bihar

Indian comics post 26/11

Religion in India as balm and as wound

Why hasn’t translation from India’s many vernacular languages into English flourished?

What tradition does IWE (Indian Writing in English) belong to?

‘As generations of Indian food historians have pointed out, there is technically no such dish as curry’

India’s paid news phenomenon

New York, an Indian movie about terror proved a huge hit in the Middle East

Mumbai’s 60 hours of terror: ‘One word he could understand was “grenade,” which was repeated several times’

Are the Arunachalis on the wrong side of geography?

Arundhati Roy on India’s corporate fundamentalists’ war against the Maoists

‘…the new Delhi aristocracy, exuberantly consumerist, literally advertises its supremacy, creating waves of adoration and hatred on every side.’