Vivek Sengupta

Fresh air |

The anti-climactic collapse of the Anna Hazare movement brings to mind TS Eliot's classic phrase: Not with a bang, but a whimper. This is not ...
12:34 PM, Aug 08, 2012

Ruchira Singh

Un'news'ual |

The recent BlackBerry outage introduced me to someone inside me I have always I feared: the paranoid BlackBerry owner who checks her phone every five ...
07:04 PM, Oct 14, 2011

Tanuj Khosla

Straight Talk |

As much as I keenly follow WikiLeaks, I don't know how true they are. So when I read Julian Assange's claims about Indians having more ...
11:54 AM, Sep 30, 2011

Jhinuk Sen

Mostly Harmless |

Twitter saved lives in the tragic moments after the Mumbai blasts last month and Facebook gave a platform to the Egypt-Libya uprisings. Blackberry Messengers seems ...
06:51 PM, Aug 11, 2011

Rituparna Chatterjee

Begging Your Pardon |

It seems the government's days of Chakrasana are over. The Congress-led UPA that rushed several senior ministers to meet Ramdev at the airport only a ...
02:32 PM, Jun 07, 2011

Tathagata Bhattacharya

Master and a glass of Margarita |

Intermittent talks about huge sums of money parked by Indian nationals in foreign tax havens were doing the rounds ever since a report attributed to ...
05:14 PM, Jun 06, 2011

Rituparna Chatterjee

Begging Your Pardon |

History bears testimony to one of the toughest crackdowns by state machinery on a civil resistance on June 4, 1989 in China's now iconic Tiananmen ...
12:06 PM, Jun 05, 2011

Subir Bhaumik

Neighbourhood watch |

The surgical commando strike that killed Osama Bin Laden at his Abbotabad mansion has demonstrated that the US is prepared to do whatever it takes ...
04:01 PM, May 09, 2011

Rajdeep Sardesai

Newsman |

On Republic Day eve, the five top news headlines perhaps reflected the state of the nation. The first was the tragic story of the Malegaon ...
11:54 PM, Jan 27, 2011

Sharadiya Dasgupta

Fashion Flaneur |

So what are you doing on Christmas eve?? On Christmas?? On Boxing day?? And on New Year's eve? Ok Ok I will stop. ...
05:11 PM, Dec 24, 2010