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The Connolly legacy

When Dr Sarada Menon’s name cropped up in a recent conversation, thoughts naturally turned to the Institute of Mental Health, Kilpauk, whose...

S Muthiah

The Hindu

20 yesterday

Rancour is no substitute for due diligence

When I referred to the article “How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate” (June 17, 2017) by Tony Joseph in my column “Sting...

A.s. Panneerselvan

The Hindu

10 previous day

Us versus them: the burden of association

The gist of my last column, aimed particularly but not exclusively at religious Muslims, was this: ‘To think that you are so special (as to...

Tabish Khair

The Hindu

10 saturday

An antidote to joblessness

Last Sunday was Father’s Day. As a dutiful son, I wanted to call my father and wish him but could not get through.On most days it is impossible...

G. Sampath

The Hindu

7 saturday

Life and death in Burhanpur

Once a thriving Mughal city known as the ‘Gateway to the Deccan’, it is now a sleepy town, which to me looks stuck in a time warp. Unlike most...

Rana Safvi

The Hindu

6 saturday

Are minority rights a good idea?

It is part of middle class common sense that something is deeply flawed with minority rights in India. If how a society treats its minorities tests...

Rajeev Bhargava

The Hindu

7 saturday

All rubbish patriotism only

Dear sir/madam,When I say, it is anti-national sedition and all. But when you say, it is global geo-political, socio-economic and multi-national...

J. Mathrubootham

The Hindu

10 saturday

India’s first woman electrical engineer

When Dr Shantha Mohan, who is writing a book on the women graduates of the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), contacted me recently, seeking...

S Muthiah

The Hindu

1000 20.06.2017

The GST of the matter

Fifty per cent of the movies being made in Kollywood should never have been released theatrically, were the comments made by an...

Sreedhar Pillai

The Hindu

20 20.06.2017

Kohli might profit from a stint in England before 2019

Clichés tend to be true. That is how they become clichés. And one of cricket’s most-repeated is: In a major final, when you win the toss, bat....

Suresh Menon

The Hindu

20 20.06.2017

Sting journalism is not investigative journalism

In this age of digital storage of information, one is not sure whether it is the power of the search engines or their own stupendous memory that...

A.s. Panneerselvan

The Hindu

7 18.06.2017

A nation is a people in conversation

What is a nation? Above all, it is a people self-consciously bound together by common or overlapping concerns about their past, present and future....

Rajeev Bhargava

The Hindu

20 17.06.2017

Naked elections please, they’re British

Sometimes watching elections in other countries is like being at some sports match when your side is not involved. At other times you care about...

Ruchir Joshi

The Hindu

10 17.06.2017

Caribbean chronicles

The elimination table has delivered another ‘Super Sunday’ for cricket enthusiasts, with India and Pakistan squaring up once again today at the...

Mini Kapoor

The Hindu

10 17.06.2017

The spectre of unemployment

The government – and Paytm – may not agree, but there are some downsides to the rising digitisation and connectivity. One is an unleashing of...

Raghavan Srinivasan

The Hindu

10 17.06.2017

The alphabet soup that is Indian cricket

Through its eight decades as the governing body, the Board of Control for Cricket in India lived up to the “control” in its name, often placing...

Suresh Menon

The Hindu

20 13.06.2017

The Islamic State as an excuse

Three men drove a van into a crowd in London on June 3, 2017, and then ran about stabbing people until efficiently shot down by British policemen....

Tabish Khair

The Hindu

400 11.06.2017

A bastion of women nawabs

As the Mughal Empire started disintegrating after the death of Aurangzeb, many local chiefs and governors declared independence. Many others,...

Rana Safvi

The Hindu

200 11.06.2017

In the heat of climatic terror

This week, dear reader, you must excuse me. It’s the heat. My brain melted into hot fudge about half an hour ago. Luckily, I had the presence of...

G. Sampath

The Hindu

1000 11.06.2017

To be a heart that hears, receives and transmits

I received a set of questions from some critics in response to my column, “Silencing the media is political suicide” (June 5, 2017). What do I...

A.s. Panneerselvan

The Hindu

4 11.06.2017

Why we inject cricket with a greater moral purpose

It is facile to say that Indians do not understand the concept of “conflict of interest”. We have had in a parliamentary panel on anti-tobacco...

Suresh Menon

The Hindu

10 06.06.2017

Silencing the media is political suicide

There were two interesting reports in The Hindu last week that once again emphasised the need for an enabling environment for the news media to...

A.s. Panneerselvan

The Hindu

60 05.06.2017

Cryptocurrency: An idea whose time has come

A spectre is haunting global capitalism: the spectre of cryptocurrencies. Three distinct forces of our modern age have come together to breathe...

Keerthik Sasidharan

The Hindu

30 03.06.2017

The modern-day ‘no stroll zones’

Sometimes a change of location throws up some stark realisations. Things that have been staring you in the face that you hadn’t fully articulated...

Ruchir Joshi

The Hindu

10 03.06.2017

Pushing the boundaries

Most of us in South Asia, even the occasional cricket watchers, set a calendar alert for the next India-Pakistan match. And today’s match between...

Mini Kapoor

The Hindu

10 03.06.2017

When a peasant revolts

It didn’t last long enough to turn public attention away from more weighty matters like cattle trade and peacock tears, but nevertheless, the...

R. Srinivasan

The Hindu

5 03.06.2017

Title tales in Tamil cinema

What’s in a film title? It means a lot in Kollywood.More than a decade ago, the Karunanidhi-led Government, in 2006, passed an order offering...

Sreedhar Pillai

The Hindu

40 31.05.2017

The ‘nightwatchman’ is in for a long innings

The hierarchy of responsibility in Indian cricket administration is affecting transition, causing delays in the enforcement of the Supreme...

Suresh Menon

The Hindu

20 30.05.2017

The Morris ‘Minor’, alive and running

A friend of mine, car buff Don Abey, visiting Galle in Sri Lanka recently, tells me of a small factory there that helps keep running the estimated...

S. Muthiah

The Hindu

20 29.05.2017

Perception and the reality

There are some irrefutable facts that emerged from an exercise to seek readers’ opinion on how the Indian media in general, and The Hindu in...

A.s. Panneerselvan

The Hindu

10 28.05.2017

You can walk and chew gum at the same time, but don’t

A former Chief Minister of an Indian State is the father of eleven. He has an original explanation for this. It happened that he was in the...

Suresh Menon

The Hindu

30 28.05.2017

Minimum government?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014 with the lofty promise of “minimum government, maximum governance”. Mr. Modi had flayed the...

Prashanth Perumal

The Hindu

100 23.05.2017

The government and the media

For nearly a decade, the dispatches from the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) were seen as a harbinger of the new challenges confronting...

A.s. Panneerselvan

The Hindu

40 23.05.2017

Players deserve more to bring them on par globally

What is the relationship between a cricket board and its players? Master-servant? Employer-employee? Parent-child? Corporate-trade union? Or are...

Suresh Menon

The Hindu

8 23.05.2017

Nurture over nature

A continuing paradox about India’s growth story in the last two decades, which have seen a substantial reduction in poverty, is the persistence...

Srinivasan Ramani

The Hindu

9 22.05.2017

As important as the three ‘R’s

The media has been full of stories on the massive ransomware attack which hit lakhs of computers worldwide last week. India was one of the...

R. Srinivasan

The Hindu

20 20.05.2017

Transportation of tongues with territory

Accents are a funny business. If you are an Indian, an urban, ‘middle-class’ Indian, then chances are that you are at least bilingual, if not...

Ruchir Joshi

The Hindu

10 20.05.2017

A history of histories

Before 1498, when Vasco da Gama made landfall on the beaches near Kozhikode, India was a bestiary of impossible truths to the European mind. Women...

Keerthik Sasidharan

The Hindu

10 20.05.2017

In the Lok Sabha’s ambit?

The Supreme Court, the government and Muslim bodies all agree that the practice of triple talaq needs reform. While Muslim bodies have asked the...

Krishnadas Rajagopal

The Hindu

10 18.05.2017

Getting the numbers right

The government last week introduced changes to two important indicators of the country’s economic situation — the Index of Industrial...

T.c.a. Sharad Raghavan

The Hindu

9 17.05.2017

Too early for a rollback

The European Union (EU) is evidently relishing its richly earned recent political reprieve from the risk of a far-right backlash in the Dutch...

Garimella Subramaniam

The Hindu

7 17.05.2017

Déjà vu at G7 meet

The prevailing mood of déjà vu following U.S. President Donald Trump’s unfolding ‘America first’ agenda could not have eluded the attention...

Garimella Subramaniam

The Hindu

8 15.05.2017

Maladies and remedies

Last week, the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) released the figures for the print media that busted the myth that print is dying in India. The...

A.s. Panneerselvan

The Hindu

10 14.05.2017

The forgotten ‘other’

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his recent visit to Sri Lanka, addressed a large gathering of hill-country Tamils in Norwood, Central...

T. Ramakrishnan

The Hindu

10 14.05.2017

Vijay Mallya, Justice Karnan, two cases of contempt

The Supreme Court separately found two persons guilty of contempt on May 9. One was a sitting High Court judge and the second a fugitive...

Krishnadas Rajagopal

The Hindu

1 11.05.2017

No quick-fix solution to end plagiarism

Concerns over academic dishonesty and plagiarism have risen in the digital age. Violation of academic ethics begins in school when holiday homework...

Parul Gupta

The Hindu

1 11.05.2017

Mr. Mandal, I presume?

Some names are more political than others. More so in Uttar Pradesh, where names are often an expression or reflection of caste hierarchy,...

Omar Rashid

The Hindu

40 10.05.2017

Trump’s Nixon moment?

U.S. President Donald Trump’s dramatic decision to sack Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chief James Comey hardly escapes comparisons with...

Stanly Johny

The Hindu

5 10.05.2017

Peace in Palestine?

In its new policy document, Hamas has indicated that it is willing to make some concessions towards Israel. The document states clearly that it is...

Kallol Bhattacherjee

The Hindu

6 10.05.2017

Shinzo Abe to rewrite Japan's Constitution: Pacifism and realpolitik

The present geopolitical situation in East Asia may have looked conducive, even compelling, for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to set a 2020...

Garimella Subramaniam

The Hindu

10 09.05.2017

On the trail of an ancestor

Several visitors from abroad come every year looking for ancestors — something, meaning lineages, few Indians are interested in. I can only...

S Muthiah

The Hindu

90 09.05.2017

Call wrongly, and it will be back to the future

Who is running Indian cricket? Some of the names: N Srinivasan, Niranjan Shah, Rajiv Shukla…Who are the people disqualified by the Supreme Court...

Suresh Menon

The Hindu

10 09.05.2017

Proper attribution is good reporting

Last week, we got a set of queries from readers pointing out discrepancies in two reports pertaining to the crisis in sand quarrying in Tamil Nadu....

A.s. Panneerselvan

The Hindu

10 07.05.2017

The turbulence from social warming

What is it about the confined space of airliners that makes people behave badly? Recently we’ve heard about horrible behaviour from both sides....

Ruchir Joshi

The Hindu

10 06.05.2017

Finding the paper trail

For those of us who link the continued dominance of the physical book to the survival of civilisation as we know it, news from distant lands this...

Mini Kapoor

The Hindu

10 06.05.2017

Another frame, another India

This past week an Indian movie — Baahubali 2 — beat a major Hollywood production (The Circle, starring superstar Tom Hanks) at the American box...

Keerthik Sasidharan

The Hindu

10 06.05.2017

India’s coming urban mega crisis

How many metro cities are there in India? If you said four, you are more than a decade out of date. The four ‘traditional’ metros – Delhi,...

R. Srinivasan

The Hindu

20 06.05.2017

BCCI vs. The Rest, and the disappearing middle ground

Over the years it had become a cliché: cricket unites India like few things do. So how did we reach this stage when cricket seems to be dividing...

Suresh Menon

The Hindu

10 02.05.2017

Our very own feedback chambers

Thirty-two-year-old Yooti Bhansali, a freelance writer-editor, likes music. This is quite evident if you follow her on Twitter, where, when not...

Suprateek Chatterjee

The Hindu

30 30.04.2017

Earning eco-karma

I swear I didn’t plan this, but I find myself writing my column on Earth Day. It’s ironic that humans have designated just one day to the place...

Vasudha Rai

The Hindu

100 30.04.2017

Malleable information is not journalism

In philosophy, the accent is on coming up with a right question. The underlying principle is that there is an answer to every right question. At...

A.s. Panneerselvan

The Hindu

7 30.04.2017

It’s hard to be a devotee

If you are setting up a debate team, make sure you never invite me to be a part of it because you would surely lose. Winning arguments requires you...

Vaishna Roy

The Hindu

10 30.04.2017