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Is Rajnikanth’s Kochadaiiyaan jinxed?…May 9 2014

Techie scolds Minister for jumping queue…May 2 2014

De-horning the rhino is ecological tinkering…April 25 2014

Tamil films have a hard time…April 18 2014

Narendra Modi: Hero or villain?…April 11 2014

Who cares for the common man?…April 4 2014

The rise of Moon Moon Sen…March 28 2014

Kamal like Rajni to step into history…March 25 2014

Shuttling in Sultanpur…March 21 2014

Will tainted men be stopped from fighting polls?…March 14 2014

India’s elections studded with stars…March 11 2014

A carnival of voters…March 7 2014

Italian marines’ case still hanging…February 28 2014

India bans film on Sri Lanka…February 25 2014

Rajiv Gandhi killers must remain in jail…February 21 2014

Peppering Parliament with appalling acts…February 14 2014

Documentary films need to be given the push…February 11 2014

The bigoted and the biased…February 7 2014

DMK wracked by Sibling rivalry…January 31 2014

Tamil film script in English…January 28 2014

Delhi CM squats on the street…January 24 2014

Minister’s scorned wife tweets fire…January 17 2014

Suchitra Sen, the reclusive legend…January 14 2014

Blood on the tracks…January 10 2014

Indian middle class is reawakening... January 4 2014

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The Last Poem…December 31 2013

Common man’s party to rule Delhi state…December 27 2013

India fumes as diplomat shamed…December 20 2013

The murder of baby girls…December 17 2013

Meeting racism…December 13 2013

War, how silly to even think of it…December 6 2013

Critic in conflict…December 3 2013

Sloppy security…November 29 2013

Editor accused of rape…November 23 2013

Waheeda Rehman to be honoured…November 19 2013

Mills an Boon goes Indian and hot…November 15 2013

Nigerians face Goa’s ire…November 8 2013

India, we love thee…November 5 2013

Cigarette warnings in movies too ineffective…November 1 2013

Shaming the past…October 27 2013

Stirring fare at Mumbai Film Fest…October 22 2013

Celebrating incarceration…October 18 2013

A mess named Telangana…October 11 2013

Ramanujam to relive on film…October 8 2013

Rahul Gandhi barges and bulldozes…October 4 2013

Manmohan must be tough with Nawaz…September 27 2013

The Good Road to Oscars?…September 24 2013

Black can be beautiful too…September 20 2013

Capital punishment may not stop capital crimes…September 14 2013

Siddharth’s India…September 10 2013

The rape of tourism…September 6 2013

Path to Parliament is through the belly?…August 30 2013

The eternal Ray…August 27 2013

Madras Cafe on a hot tin roof…August 23 2013

Tryst with distress…August 16 2013

Vijay’s Thalaivaa in trouble…August 13 2013

Oldest train station may be pulled down…August 9 2013

Birth pangs of a new State…August 2 2013

Criticising a critic…July 30 2013

Modi bashing gets murkier…July 26 2013

A plateful of death…July 19 2013

Indian cinema celebrates villainy…July 16 2013

A nation stained and shamed…July 12 2013

The curious case of Ishrat Jahan…July 5 2013

Dhanush fails in first Bollywood outing…July 2 2013

When the young die on the road…June 28 2013

Politics in disarray… June 21 2013

The social crusade of cinema…June 18 2013

Star suicide lands boyfriend in jail…June 14 2013

No, no to mannequins in lingerie…June 7 2013

Gems of Cannes…June 4 2013

The red terror…May 31 2013

Babus at Cannes…May 24 2013

The cinemas of Cannes…May 21 2013

Not so incredible any more…May 18 2013

A vote for clean Government…May 10 2013

Cannes, not really a tribute to Indian cinema…May 7 2013

Indian prisoner attacked in Pakistan jail, dies…May 3 2013

China’s brazen intrusion into India…April 26 2013

India makes it to Cannes…April 23 2103

Political opportunism post Bangalore blastApril 19 2103

Killing of Sikhs: will the guilty be punished?…April 12 2013

Cinema, violence and the young…April 9 2013

Death in a jail…April 5 2013

Dravidian politics ‘promoting’ Tamil nationalism…March 29 2013

Irrfan, gem of a Khan…March 26 2013

Lankan Tamil issue causes crisis… March 22 2013

*Cannes breaks tradition with its opening film…March 18 2013

*Cannes Film Festival to focus on India…March 17 2013

Italian marines refuse to return to Kerala…March 15 2013

Kashmir to be Spielberg’s next set…March 12 2013

Sex at 16…March 8 2013

Arbitrariness of capital punishment…March 1 2013

Oscars’ political spin…February 26 2013

AirAsia and Tatas to fly together…February 22 2013

Not screaming scam…February 15 2013

Mani Ratnam: A lost magic…February 13 2013

Modi is the man India needs…February 8 2013

No end to Kamal Hassan’s woes…February 1 2013

Tamil Nadu bans Viswaroopam for 15 days…January 25 013

Viswaroopam not to premiere on television…January 18 2013

Shoot your mouth off...January 11 2013

Kamal’s Viswaroopam to open on TV…January 8 2013

Sex sells, and sells bestJanuary 4 2013

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Hope in the time of rape…December 28 2012

Rape of a nation…December 21 2012

The great Indian parochialism…December 14 2012

Breathing in poison…December 7 2012

Mohsin doesn’t write books in movie forms…December 2 2012

A picnic named Bollywood…November 30 2012

Kasab’s execution renews debate…November 23 2012

Vijay and his gun…November 16 2012

Will China and India bury their past?…November 9 2012

Indian film captures terror of Naxalism…November 5 2012

Ang Lee, the man I missed…November 2 2012

Positively unfair, this conduct…October 26 2012

Soot and stain do not make India…October 19 2012

Now Sonia’s son-in-law in the soup…October 12 2012

Salman Rushdie must be welcomed…October 5 2012

India’s Oscars fiasco…October 2 2012

The Rahul Riddle…September 28 2012

The big shop and the little shop…September 21 2012

Cartooning in the time of democracy…September 14 2012

Manmohan under foreign fire…September 7 2012

Lure of Lido lingers…September 3 2012

The noose to martyrdom…August 31 2012

Will Venice Film Fest deliver?…August 29 2012

Racist India…August 24 2012

India at 65: A nation in turmoil…August 17 2012

The great Indian drought…August 10 2012

Bollywood on walls…August 3 2012

India’s new terror…July 27 2012

The Guwahati shame…July 20 2012

The man who drove women wild…July 19 2012

Bollywood beats the censors…July 17 2012

The treasure hunt…July 13 2012

Kill Bills on the road…July 6 2012

A mobile madness…June 29 2012

Divide and misrule…June 22 2012

Kamal Hassan set to thrill…June 20 2012

Drama over a president…June 15 2012

Can Manmohan be believed this time?…June 8 2012

Mr Prime Minister, what are you doing?…June 1 2012

Faceless communication…May 26 2012

Indian summer at Cannes…May 18 2012 

Leela Samson quits Kalakshetra, but why? ….May 11 2012

Teenage sex can be a crime…May 4 2012

The ‘Dirty’ Picture…April 27 2012

Might to madness…April 20 2012

Ordeals of Khans…April 16 2012

A nun’s story…April 13 2012

A coup, but that is a laugh…April 6 2012

The new god…April 2 2012

The Tibetan dilemma…March 30 2012

Was Chennai sending a message?…March 23 2012

The Italian imbroglio…March 20 2012

Derailing railways and nation…March 16 2012

Must Rahul Gandhi be blamed for Congress defeat? …March 9 2012

Take your pick: N-power or darkness…March 2 2012

Stars’ street show…February 28 2012

Murder at sea…February 24 2012

For whom the Oscars toll…February 22 2012

Oh! Calcutta…February 17 2012

Problem parenting…February 13 2012

Ministers watch porn in Assembly…February 10 2012

Will Rahul lift the Congress in UP?…February 7 2012

Will the Home Mininster resign?…February 3 2012

Rajnikanth’s prance into the past…January 30 2012

Bullying the bull…January 27 2012

Rushdie Affair: The shame of it all…January 23 2012

Rushdie a victim of politics? …January 20 2012

Mortifying manifestation…January 13 2012

Flight of fearJanuary 6 2012 

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Heinousness of honour killing…December 30 2011

Woes of a prime minister and his party…December 23 2011

The gag culture…December 16 2011

Healing house turns killer inferno…December 10 2011

India’s darkest hour…December 9 2011

Hello and goodbye to FDI…December 2 2011

The incredibility of it all…November 25 2011

Cars and chaos…November 18 2011

Kanimozhi: Will the bail come?…November 11 2011

The seven billionth dilemma…November 4 2011

A skewed view…October 28 2011

The dilemma over the noose…October 21 2011

Woebegone villages…October 14 2011

Indian literature lost in globalised translation…October 10 2011

Where is the Prime Minister?…October 7 2011

Let the tiger burn bright…September 30 2011

Of the rich, for the rich…September 23 2011

Prime Ministers in waiting…September 16 2011

Bond meets Gandhi…September 14 2011

Delhi blast points to sheer apathy…September 9 2011

Indian cinema happy at home…September 2 2011

A flawed method…August 26 2011

Will Prakash Jha’s film be the last to face ban?…August 22 2011

India needs a billion Hazares…August 19 2011

No to the noose…August 12 2011

Where are the girls…August 5 2011

Private enterprise disgusted…July 29 2011

Blood on Indian roads…July 22 2011

Mumbai mayhem calls for deeper probe…July 17 2011

Must Manmohan Singh remain in office…July 15 2011

Minister angers gays…July 8 2011

Rajnikanth the man of the masses…July 1 2011

Animals party, men starve in India…June 24 2011

A canvas of bigotry…June 17 2011

India’s battle against black moneyJune 10 2011

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