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In this month's issue of The Caravan, I looked at the regulations that have led to unprecedented levels of self-censorship on modern In...

This is an incredible comic . (via @mantaraycomics)

Giving them awards . (Poetry, tablets, taming the internet, and now this. Seriously, is there any problem Sibal can't solve?)

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Eric Bellman reports on developing countries demanding more rights for their overseas laborers. The millio...

The first paragraph of Mumbai Mirror's remembrance of Sharada Dwivedi : It is rather ironical that writer-historian-author of several bo...

I just realized that Rohit Shetty has directed five movies in four years . And if all his announced projects come to fruition, he will have ...

In one devastating paragraph , Sambit Bal tells you why cricket isn't a global game: Only notionally is cricket a global game. It is a m...

Like me, a lot of you probably haven't heard about the Whitney v California case from 1927. I just stumbled up on the case, and can...

It's been interesting to see how people refer to Shirish Kunder. Many identified him by name, of course, but a noticeable number didn...

The February 2012 issue of The Caravan contains my first story for the magazine. In it I take a look back at Mark Mascarenhas , Indian crick...

Indranil Basu’s front page Times of India story on the discontent in Indian cricket makes me cringe. Here’s is a bloated rumor masqueradin...

I don’t remember when exactly I began to have this fear, but the specter of an Indian team shorn of its extraordinary fortune (there’s no ot...

"When you write a book, you willingly step into the public arena, no longer reporter but being reported upon, no longer jotting down no...

Bear with me a moment. I'm trying to explore the nature of something. I've found that when it comes to memories, there is an inevita...

To me, a memory is a story whose cast and lines change imperceptibly with each recollection. Seen from other angles, memories become a kind ...

The pianist, a quiet man from Washington, contemplated what he would do after he gave up what he was born to do. Greying, slowing, he no lon...

Last Sunday, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Samanth Subramanian, and I caught up. As an aside, one of the things I'm irrationally proud of - don...

Eight days short of six years ago, when there was time for internal dialogue, I wrote this . Many things have changed since, but the conflic...

Reading The Emperor of All Maladies today, I came by a passage whose sentiment I found familiar . "Basic research," [Vannevar] Bu...

It was a pretty calm and unexciting day when the phone rang, as it always did, quite suddenly. Voice : Hello. I'm calling from IMRB on b...