Beyond Business - Expert Views
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June 08, 2018, Friday
Cyber heists
Irumbu Thirai is a sober account of how our daily smartphone use can be our nemesis
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May 18, 2018, Friday
'Here vomited Goethe'
This year is the 250th year of his birth, and Tübingen, a charming town southwest Germany where Hölderlin was once a student, is ...
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May 04, 2018, Friday
Death of a PM
The real strength of the narrative is in the number of different strands that Goswami negotiates at the same time, without any ...
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April 27, 2018, Friday
Untrue to type
I still don't join the growing number of civil society protests, though now I would like to
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April 27, 2018, Friday
Mohamed Salah for the Ballon d'Or?
Talk of his being the best player in the world was swirling around Europe much before he harried, twisted and tormented an ...
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April 20, 2018, Friday
For Dhasal
Chandramohan's book, Letters to Namdeo Dhasal - his second after Warscape Verses (Authorpress, 2014) - pays tribute to the older ...
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April 13, 2018, Friday
The clique of wine drinkers
Interestingly, while Bengaluru has nearly five groups of wine and food societies or associations that meet regurlarly, Delhi has ...
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April 13, 2018, Friday
Sukumar, Ram Charan bounce back with 'Rangasthalam'
All Sukumar's movies, prior to Rangasthalam, were urbane, cosmopolitan and soaked in yuppie aspirational culture
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March 17, 2018, Saturday
The 8,000-year-old history of wine is replete with instances of fraud
The Phylloxera epidemic devasted vineyards in Europe in the second half of the 19th century such that wine production in France ...
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March 10, 2018, Saturday
Art of resistance: Mithu Sen is the dark horse of the art world
How does one eliminate the very space one inhabits? This is Sen's dilemma
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March 10, 2018, Saturday
Idle bodies, idle minds: Creativity comes from engaging with physical world
I find that Wozniak's point about the active pursuit by ordinary people of the creative arts and sports not being common among ...
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March 03, 2018, Saturday
What are principal wine regions of France, and what do they produce?
French wines rarely give the name of their grapes on the label
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February 24, 2018, Saturday
The art of buying: How has market fared over the past year?
Auction houses and art dealers point to the rising buying power of a younger generation who are beginning to collect for the ...
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June 02, 2017, Friday
The artist and the collector
Basquiat's paintings are disquieting, often consisting of heads of warriors in a rictus of pain
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June 02, 2017, Friday
One eye on his legacy
Nature of media has dramatically changed gradually, offering all sides a platform to voice views
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May 19, 2017, Friday
Market power of a shorty
Online dating is perhaps the clearest example of market principles in the world of romance
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May 19, 2017, Friday
Lynch mobs of the gods
To convert non-believers to their cause or enforce adulation of their heroes & gods are running riot
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May 12, 2017, Friday
The serious business of wines
Wine is still regarded as something consumed by glamorous socialites
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April 14, 2017, Friday
The wine club: The highs and lows of spirits
Is there a case for expempting low-alcohol products from this Supreme Court draconian judgment?
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February 10, 2017, Friday
Ashish Sharma: Agent Orange prefers dollars
Bitcoin lost 40% of its value in a single day
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June 06, 2018, Wednesday
Test 2 'Here vomited Goethe'
This year is the 250th year of his birth, and Tübingen, a charming town southwest Germany where Hölderlin was once a student, is ...
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May 04, 2018, Friday
Words of wonder
The Tour de France, especially, has one of the greatest commentary teams in any sport, and this is the duo of Phil Liggett and ...
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April 27, 2018, Friday
The perfect 100-point wine dinner
Michel Chapoutier is one of the most famous vintners in France and one of the first in the country to convert to biodynamic ...
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April 27, 2018, Friday
Public servants
Bharat Ane Nenu is already a roaring hit and will certainly hold the "non-Baahubali" record for its lifetime box office ...
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April 27, 2018, Friday
Numb and number
Data become ever more plentiful by orders of magnitude, and interactive data visualisations ever more powerful
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April 20, 2018, Friday
Who's afraid of the death penalty?
Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi declared last week that her ministry was in favour of amending the POCSO Act ...
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April 13, 2018, Friday
The political power of a fast
As politicians continue to use the ancient practice to score brownie points in their present-day electoral battles, it may be ...
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March 17, 2018, Saturday
'Historians of Redundant Moments' review: Two sisters and their ghosts
The book, a winner of the 2016 Numinous Orisons Luminous Origin Literary Award, recreates the Left-ruled Calcutta of the eighties ...
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March 17, 2018, Saturday
Decoding silence in love via Shape of Water, Mukkabaaz, Phantom Thread
Mute heroines in Shape of Water and Mukkabaaz lend a delicious heft to both the movies
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March 10, 2018, Saturday
The saffron spread: For now, the BJP remains the side to beat in 2019
Bypoll losses of BJP, such as the recent ones in MP mean little when the larger picture is one of rising influence
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March 03, 2018, Saturday
'New Delhi Love Songs' review: How Creighton writes poems on city's streets
In Michael's book, some of his fellow residents make appearances
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March 03, 2018, Saturday
These two Telugu movies affirm Sridevi's status as a cine goddess
Barring Isabelle Huppert, I can't think of any other actor in the world who can stake claim to such a rich body of work under her ...
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February 24, 2018, Saturday
Understanding your city
All of us would benefit from exploring our surroundings in greater depth than just figuring out the location of landmarks and ...
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June 02, 2017, Friday
Tripping on nostalgia
Amit Chaudhuri's descriptions reveal a city that remains largely unseen to its residents
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June 02, 2017, Friday
The science behind recognition
The tuning of each face cell is to a combination of facial dimensions
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May 19, 2017, Friday
Finding India in Amsterdam
An additional attraction this summer is an exhibition by Indian artist Nalini Malani
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May 12, 2017, Friday
Dotage dramas
Movies like Mukti Bhawan and Pa Paandi are essential lessons in filial responsibilities
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April 14, 2017, Friday
Holy cows, global and local
In Norse mythology, the cow is the creator of the universe
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February 17, 2017, Friday
Alok Chandra: Sula's world wines
A little-known fact about Sula is that it imports and markets wines from seven countries
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February 10, 2017, Friday
Kishore Singh: The colour of motivation
Atul Dodiya focusses our attention on techniques that have been part of the world's visual inheritance
