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One of the stories in Blue is Like Blue describes a group of poets who gather regularly to read their work. These meetings are presided over by a critic who, lest it be said that "poets are cut off from reality", insists that each poet physically bri

Nusrat Jahan is back on a film set for the first time after getting married and being elected to Parliament. The actor opened up on all things reel and real in her life Q. You recently started filming for a new movie. What character are you playing t

Why do we believe some people but not others? How do spies go undetected for years? Can we believe the 9/11 suspects who concoct tales when deprived of sleep? Malcolm Gladwell delivers yet another racy book in which he raises all these questions and

In a nation where literature festivals are now somewhat common, it takes some grand intent and organisation to be the biggest. For Sahitya Aaj Tak, 'biggest' is not a boast. Held at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), Delhi, from

Adversity, thy name is Ayushmann Khurrana. First there was erectile dysfunction (Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, 2017) and then came blindness (Andhadhun, 2018). This year around, Khurrana is a 20-something man suffering from premature baldness (Bala, Novembe

The party pooper The Enforcement Directorate was fairly busy swooping down on Opposition leaders before the election in Maharashtra, and the BJP had hoped it will bring electoral dividends. But it was not to be. NCP leaders Chhagan Bhujbal and Hasan

Prateek Vats's debut fiction feature, which has now won acclaim at the recently-concluded Pingyao festival and the Golden Gateway Award at the Mumbai film festival, begins with a group of young men practising a somewhat riveting chant 'Eeb Allay Ooo'

Who Controls Social Media? By January, the government told the Supreme Court on Monday, October 28, it will have prepared a final draft of its proposed rules and regulations for social media. According to the ministry of electronics and information t

It is a little alarming to find myself in substantial agreement with JR in his view of "Indian culture" as a multi-layered palimpsest - not least because JR is a self-confessed "conservative" and I fancied myself a leftist once. (Leftists are an enda

The capital and its surrounding environs were enveloped in a familiar, noxious post-Diwali smog, as despite talk of a quieter, greener festive period, air quality levels plunged. If there was any consolation for Delhi's residents, struggling to catch

Goodwin Jewellers, a firm based in Thrissur, Kerala, with 14 outlets in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, had raised deposits from thousands of investors through its gold deposit and fixed deposit (FD) schemes. On October 22, the firm downed its shutte

Aware that his reputation as a business facilitator will be put to the test, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath organised the first investor summit of his 10-month-old government at Indore on October 18. 'Magnificent Madhya Pradesh' was meticul

In a keenly-watched byelection, the Congress wrested the Jhabua assembly seat from the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, taking its tally in the 230-member House to 115, the exact half-way mark. Former Union minister Kantilal Bhuria defeated the BJP's Bhanu Bhu

It was long overdue. Finally, the Communist Party of India (CPI-M) in Bengal is making space for younger leaders. "With 60 per cent of India's population in the 18-40 age group, it would be unwise to leave Gen X behind in policy- and decision-making,

On October 27, at the hurriedly organised swearing-in at the Haryana Raj Bhavan, all eyes were on new deputy chief minister, Dush­yant Chautala. The 31-year-old Jat leader turned out to be the surprise factor this election when his 10-month-old party

In the busy 18th-floor office of Shree Venkatesh Films, Aparna Sen radiates a kind of sunny aura in her bright yellow chiffon sari. Her film, Ghawre Bairey Aaj, will release on November 15, and promotions for it have begun in earnest. Her three lead

In a 2013 column for an Indian newspaper, Abhijit Banerjee, this year's joint winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, made a point that sparked some controversy. Banerjee, who won the prize for his experi

In response to 'stranger danger' fears, India has become the ninth country to adopt a sex offenders' database, with personal details of those convicted for rape and sexual assault. The year-old database contains 500,000 names and will be used for 're

Literature, mythology and religious and erotic texts dating from well over 1,800 years ago not only display a deep familiarity with non-binary genders and sexualities, but also emphasise their virtues. Legend has it that Rama dismissed his subjects,

How does the quintessential gay man measure his sexual experiences? In the condoms he used? In the beds he left bare? In the men to come or the men that went by? In the jocular tales that he shared or the rumours that he helped spread? In the whisper

As a sex educator, I'm a confidante to countless situations of crisis in the bedroom where, more often than not, the alarm is raised by the man seeking help for his 'sexless' wife. Puzzled about why it is the husband who seeks sex and the wife who gi

India, over the past decade, has seen an increase in the cases of cybercrime and 'sextortion'-essentially, blackmail for sexual gain. Cases of sextortion usually involve a blackmailer with access to a person's private videos or photographs. This can

The Shiv Sena might have won seven seats less than it did in 2014, but Uddhav Thackeray isn't complaining. The BJP's tally of 105 seats, 40 short of a simple majority in the 288-member Maharashtra assembly, has put him in a position to pay back the B

Since 2013, 16 nations, including the 10 members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and six of its free-trade partners-India, China, South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand-have been locked in negotiations over a supersized

He was unable to get aroused. He found her unattractive. But he loved her and didn't want to end it. So he thought of a way out-get himself aroused beforehand and then come to bed. That way, he didn't have to face up to his own inadequacy. She was al

The party pooper The Enforcement Directorate was fairly busy swooping down on Opposition leaders before the election in Maharashtra, and the BJP had hoped it will bring electoral dividends. But it was not to be. NCP leaders Chhagan Bhujbal and Hasan

How does the quintessential gay man measure his sexual experiences? In the condoms he used? In the beds he left bare? In the men to come or the men that went by? In the jocular tales that he shared or the rumours that he helped spread? In the whisper

As a sex educator, I'm a confidante to countless situations of crisis in the bedroom where, more often than not, the alarm is raised by the man seeking help for his 'sexless' wife. Puzzled about why it is the husband who seeks sex and the wife who gi

Her fingers move across the smartphone with evident intensity, scrolling through the multiple videos that have popped up after she typed in 'erotic couplings'. They are lying side by side in his paying guest accommodation in Pune and the internet on

Money isn't new to Indore, often described as the commercial capital of Madhya Pradesh. But post-liberalisation, the scale-manifested in the mushrooming of malls, multiplexes, swanky cars, farmhouses and posh real estate-has seen a massive upswing. T