Articles
India’s War on Greenpeace
Why is India’s political class lining up to brand environmental activists as enemies of the state?
The Breathless Traveller
In unfamiliar places, a familiar illness
A Life in a Password
Early forays into the Internet
The Endless Indian Trial
“Court” and the dysfunctions of the Indian judiciary
White on Green
The chequered history of Pakistani cricket
Midnight’s Grown-Ups
In 1967, an Indian film-maker asked 20-year-olds what they thought of their country. What do they think of India now?
Breach Candy
There were rumbles of fraud, of a mania for land, of politicians flexing their muscles, until we appeared to be talking not of the Breach Candy Club but of India herself.
A Centenary of Jeeves and Wooster
How they burst onto the scene, flummoxed their author, and stayed
India’s Craze for World Records
Gupta went out and bought a Phillips 100-watt light bulb, went to a nearby park and threw it 104.6 feet. The record, as it stood then, was 106.7 feet.