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Is the Mumbai Swarm Thinning?

The clasp of tightening bodies on suburban trains started easing, and the space between flesh and flesh increased. It took a few more years to realise that the city is not overcrowded anymore

Church Lures Gujarat Tribals to Christ

Poverty is forcing the tribal community to embrace Christianity

Amway. Conway?

Amway International has invariably proved that it is a global con show. The following narration is based on an encounter, which took place recently, with an Amway executive. Have fun…

Existential Dilemma

On the third and top floor is a shabby, smelly room crammed with pamphlets, underground literature, Mao’s and Lu Shun’s portraits, faded red flags, threadbare kurtas and cloth bags — paraphernalia which were supposed to ensure a red revo

In Conversation with a Dog

The following conversation, with a dog and the writer, is not just imagination but fifty per cent real talk; twenty-five per cent fiction and the remaining twenty-five per cent based on circumstantial evidence.

Yehoshua Opens His Heart

His eleventh book, Open Heart, was set in India. Before you ask, ‘What’s so great about that? Several authors, including E M Forster, John Masters, M M Kye and Dominique Lapierre, have used the subcontinent for their plot,’ please realis

The Creator of Legends

An obituary... one of the greatest writers the world has ever produced. And what raised him to that pedestal is his first and best novel, The Legend of Khasak, which was published around the same time that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s path-bre

Second-hand? Yes. Second-best? No

In a stretch of about two kilometres — on which educated, Shakespeare-quoting street vendors have hawked books for the past 20-30 years — around 200,000 books are up for grabs. Every day.

Conflict over Foreign Investment in Indian Press

Is it a threat of further invasion of our values, culture and life by foreign opinion makers or would it simply bring in financial investment, editorial quality and transparency. A heated debate amongst editors, publishers, and politicians in India.

Book: A Slice Of Life

The book is a must-read for both journalism students and aficionados.

Changing Times

Whatever flaws the American press might have (remember ’embedded journalism’), it adhered to at least one principle: never sell editorial space — at least not blatantly. And we, Indians, have managed to do that, too.

Sunil K Poolani

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