December 31, 2002 00:00 IST
Did you dream of becoming the Mumbai Police Commissioner?After I joined the Maharashtra cadre, I found the Mumbai Police Commissioner’s...
September 09, 1998 00:00 IST
Culture often becomes a convenient weapon, a shield for incompetence. In a country where a million things are left undone or half done, i...
August 26, 1998 00:00 IST
Bill Clinton's sex life is his own business. Maybe it involves his wife, and perhaps their God. But certainly not the lesser God of the p...
August 12, 1998 00:00 IST
In the dark dampness of the night, there are screams outside. And in the breeze that brings the smell of garbage and the sea, there is de...
August 01, 1998 00:00 IST
When Communist Party of India (Marxist) mandarins in Delhi are rethinking the party's role in national politics, miles away in what was o...
July 15, 1998 00:00 IST
The final volume of Justice Milap Chand Jain's official jokes and old stories retold is out. After passionately rehashing yellowing newspape...
July 01, 1998 00:00 IST
On a hot, humid Chennai night, someone is running high fever. Far away from telephones and conversations, she writes angry notes to appear o...
June 17, 1998 00:00 IST
Memories of a December morning are coming back to haunt the Congress as it tries to redefine its existence as an opposition party. When the ...
April 24, 1998 00:00 IST
In Jayalalitha Jayaram's universe, justice and revenge ought to be as instant as they are in Tamil movies. If the story does not end the way...
May 03, 1997 00:00 IST
The threat is not hidden or subtle, it is loud and clean. The blackmailer emerges from a dark alley to threaten the lower-division clerk ...
