An inclusive public sphere
A.S. PanneerselvanThe acrimonious social media space is not encouraging dialogue but is instead generating new forms of silos
From Lala to Virat — colourful characters have always existed in Indian cricket
Suresh MenonHis sentences in English were short and sounded dismissive even if he didn’t mean them to be. They sounded authoritative too — and this, he meant them
A fragile ecosystem
A.S. PanneerselvanTo encourage critical enquiry, journalism must constantly remind citizens of the troubled past and difficult battles
A manifesto for torn jeans
Mathangi KrishnamurthyDistressed jeans becomes both a form of rebellion, a plugging out, and an intimate connection with clothing as continuous with the body
Are you EVM-positive?
G. SampathLast Tuesday, our kitchen tested positive. Every time we took the cake out of the oven, it was lotus-shaped
We judge by actions, so why force umpires to judge on intent?
Suresh MenonTo expect a human being to get into the head of another to judge intention is both unreasonable and undoable