In this issue

24 Friends and Foes
With its allies pitted against it, the BJP seems to be on a sticky wicket ahead of the
Jharkhand assembly elections
28 The Press, My Lord
Decoding why “bitter truths must remain in memory” vis-a-vis Ranjan Gogoi,
the 46th Chief J ustice of India
110 Guru Nanak@550
The first of the Sikh Gurus belongs to all humanity, writes Amandeep Sandhu
Anniversary
40 Ruskin Bond
He makes the mundane interesting
with his purple pen in the morning and
enjoys watching TV at night
44 Virender Sehwag
What cricketers do after retiring? For
one, Sehwag, a man of simplicity and
earthy wisdom, lives for his academy.
50 Sunny Leone
Bollywood, motherhood, husband...the
38-year-old screen siren still gets time
to pick her kids from school
58 Manish Sisodia
How he unwinds—Netflix and cinema
with the Kejriwals
62 Ravish Kumar
Do you know the Prime Time anchor
operates from a small room under a
staircase in his office?
80 Kiran Bedi
Between music and WhatsApp, it’s
work, work, work at Raj Niwas
6 LETTERS 114 BOOKS 120 GLITTERATI 122 DIARY

No One At The Ranch

Deserted by allies and partymen, Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das is fighting a lonely battle to save his crown

5 mins

Bitter Truths In Sealed Cover

Former CJI Ranjan Gogoi assumed office with a messianic aura but left behind a legacy scorched by controversies

5 mins

Heeding The Cry, 'Au thor, Author'

THE mist has obscured the steep lanes of Landour, but finding our destination is not diffi­cult.

5 mins

Slow Gathering Of Life's Net

AS ducks swim, Virender Sehwag timed the leather orb. Of the 17,253 international runs he scored, Sehwag’s innate ability to spank the cricket ball boiled down to precise hand-eye coordination.

4 mins

Ma Is A Baby Doll

IT’S a little after 7 in the morning, the time when Mumbai gradually wakes up; the incessant commotion that typifies the financial capital builds up slowly.

6 mins

Old Man River

SIDDIQUE Ali stands on the bow his country boat, silhouetted against a flaming orange sky on a November evening.

1 min

The Portfolio Of An Aam Aadmi

IT’S a bright day and Delhi’s deputy CM is walking briskly on the tread-mill at his official residence on Mathura Road.

4 mins

Namaskar, Main Ravish Kumar...

SITTING above news crawlers and tick-ers, within the confines of the TV screen, Ravish Kumar appears an aver-age man, belying his height and physique.

5 mins

Bol Paran Periods

“LOOK,” says tabla virtuoso Pandit Tanmoy Bose, slowly moving his index finger along the rim of a half-filled glass of water, “listen to what happens”.

6 mins

Passion-Fruit Mojo

WITH the top hat, ’tache and three-piece, Gopinath Muthukad almost looks straight out of a Lee Falk comic panel.

3 mins

Show A Man His Place

AS the swish set of south Delhi crowd the serpentine lanes of Hauz Khas Village, Punjabi hits and techno tracks reverberate with the kaleidoscopic colours of the dance floor.

3 mins

Apples Of A Frozen Wrath

Mushtaq Ahmad Malik could barely recognise his orchard.

2 mins

In The Vaults Of Death

DRUMS announce the arrival of the first corpse at the cremation and burial ground in Otteri, Chennai.

2 mins

The Cycle Of Life

EVERY day of renewed energy is a message by Nature to continue adding value to life and living.

4 mins

Veni Vidi Vanchy

K.R. Vancheeswaran, 57, or simply Vanchy as everyone calls him here, wakes up to the sweet call of the Malabar whistling thrush every morning.

2 mins

Your Shopping, Her Wings

Your Shopping, Her Wings

2 mins

The Jungle Book

AROUND four in the evening, after a late lunch, Pamela Gale Malhotra is standing at a bay window in her living room looking out at a picture-perfect landscape—a rainsoaked forest with the Brahmagiri hills framing the backdrop.

2 mins

Tweeterverse

QUACK! The gander gives away the nest’s position behind an arbour of foliage.

1 min

Murga Rides The Wave

The ‘on air’ sign in the radio studio lights up red at 7 am sharp.

2 mins

The Slytherin Wizard

“COMElet’s release this fellow in the bushes,” says Shravan as he led me into the forested tracts of the sprawling Theosophical Society campus in Chennai.

2 mins

Officer And A Musafir

ANAND Kumar was a regular cricketer in his college days. now, he has to find time for golf during weekends.

1 min

Their Last Rides

Their Last Rides

1 min

Pressing On Still

Pressing On Still

1 min

Chasing Nirvana

THIS mortal world is constantly chasing one thing or the other—worldly wealth for many, nirvana and moksha for some.

1 min

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