To The Point

In India’s power capital, those who know little don’t stop talking but those who know everything rarely speak. Exploring the many worlds inhabited by those who wield the power to influence our lives, chief of Hinudstan Times Political Bureau brings you a sharp and snappy take on policy and politics every week. ‘To the Point’ will never exceed 399 words. It will make sense of what is said, and also of what is not said.

Footloose

Footloose, a blog about heading where fancy takes you. To the hills, sunbathing by the sea, or falling off the map in search of complete silence. Places I’ve been to and places I’ve sat in my chair and dreamt about. Undiscovered destinations, traveller tips, photographs and rants — you’ll find them all here.

Our Daily Bread

This is a blog about what we eat and how we live—between meals. It will drift from kitchen to history, from restaurant to personality, from spice to creature (mostly cooked), more infrequently to a fruit or vegetable. If you are a vegetarian, kindly adjust.

Singly Political

This is a blog about the trials of a single woman journalist covering the big, bad world of  Indian politics - and sometimes wolfing down, well, the wolves. It will take you behind the scenes into what really goes - or does not — into netagiri, rip off some masks, doff a (Gandhi) cap or two and still hope to come up gasping.

By The Way

This blog is going to look at popular culture; the good, the bad and the ugly in TV, films, fiction, ads… What entertains us, annoys us, irritates or mystifies us…The only measure by which anything will be judged is: Thou shalt not bore ( to borrow nine of Billy Wilder’s ten commandments). Bollywood bashers, purists, High Art practitioners, please skip this one and return to the collected works of _____ (fill in favoured obscure filmmaker/writer of choice).

Page One

Why news is everything that is not fit to carry:

Welcome to the madness inside HT’s newsroom. And get up close with the men and machines that make your favourite newspaper. Let’s talk about the process and the reasons for doing something and not doing something. Tell us what you liked and what you didn’t.

She-Baba

This is a personal take on the oddities, quirks and mysteries of religion and spirituality – and their plainly revolting aspects. It is not for the faint-hearted, the conventional and the bead-sucking votaries of official religion. This blog likes humanity (which includes men but just barely), loathes the patriarchy and dumb rules that tell us to take stupid stuff at face value. But She Baba knows it’s a scary business being human and occasionally admits that a healthy chicken liver is advisable once in a very blue moon as the better part of valour.

Shoot At Sight

Capital Closeup

This blog is about Delhi, one of the oldest capitals of the world and arguably the best city in India. It will contain observations about life in general and occasionally about the intrigues and conspiracies that get hatched here. It will also have something on Hindi music and how urban India is evolving. The changing face of Delhi reflects the changing face of this country.

Expat On The Edge

This blog is about partying, clubbing, films, eating out, dating and socialising in an Indian metro, looking at those issues the modern young funky person wants to know about. The twist is it comes from a foreign woman’s eyes. Conservative Indians, brace yourselves.

Medium Term

Medium Term takes a critical look at the issues, challenges and controversies facing the Indian media. Written from the perspective of a veteran of both print and television, it seeks to confront the issues rather than dance gingerly around them in vague generalities. It names names, gives examples and delivers highly subjective judgements .

Just People

This is a blog about those whom we elect. The way we see them and the way they are. Bits known but a lot unknown. The funny and flippant side of those who claim to shape India and to an extent our destinies.

IndiGestion

Let’s face it. Every moment of our lives has a soundtrack. Whether it’s a big event like a divorce, or a grand stretch where nothing happens, everything has a song playing in the background. IndiGestion taps into
these subsonic tunes thanks to the powers invested within the bowels of Indrajit Hazra. Using the cochlea — the hearing organ in the ear — Hazra links the news to the music. Read on. Oh, and listen.

@ Hindi Heartland

This blog is all about the Hindi heartland, its vibrant socio-cultural ethos, its poor economics and volatile politics. Dubbed derisively as India’s cowbelt, bhaiyaland or the badlands, it’s the Hindi heartland that produced the best of babus. But it became infamous for its incontrovertible controversies and crimes. If Mumbai is known for its undying spirit, cowbelt can be known for the special warmth that the people here exude.

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Separated At Birth

India and Pakistan, sub-continental siblings who look alike but seldom think alike. Peace between them is as infrequent as it’s fragile, a long history of distrust driving them into demonizing each other. This blog will seek a constituency of reason across common boundaries of these perennially distant neighbors.

Page Turner

Why do we read? For lots of reasons. A journey through life and books - from the point of view of one for whom the two are indistinguishable.

The Delhiwalla

With an eclectic choice of topics, this blog hopes to shine a pleasant humanistic light on the myriad facets of Delhi, and the occupations, preoccupations, habits, histories of its residents.

Middle Order

A reporter transplanted from teeming Mumbai finds herself in the capital of India’s most powerful neighbour, in an orderly city of 17 million people and less than 1,000 Indians. When she is not struggling to decipher her bank statements in Mandarin, Reshma Patil is scouring around Beijing’s centuries-old alleys to skyscrapers. Catch her as she blogs on the world’s fastest-changing country that was once the Middle Kingdom.

Cutting The Edge

This blog tracks knowledge. From economics and law through history and politics to astronomy and psychology — and everything in between. The idea is to take up interesting research from outstanding minds across the world, and make it relevant to those busy with everyday work and life. Bite sized knowledge that is pure brain food.

Dabs & Jabs

Through the dabs and jabs of a cartoonist’s brush, this blog paints a satirical view of everyday life! Catch all the eloquent strokes as they spare no one under the sun!

Expletive Deleted

A Good Look at Bad Language is the title of one of Kushalrani Gulab’s favourite books. It not only traces the history of bad words in the English language but also explains to the reader the situations when a mere @#$% will suffice and when the stronger %$^#@!***#$&@!!!@$% is called for. Since this is a family blog however, you will find no bad words here. Bad rants, bad jokes and bad grammer, possibly. Bad words, no.

1/4 th Of Me

When did pocket money become savings accounts? How did puppy love turn into long term relationships? Why did a glass of wine replace a shot of tequila? When did we stop getting marks for completing deadlines? This blog trudges along the long and often precarious path of becoming a grown up. Welcome to the quarter life crisis.

Drinks Break

Charismatic cricketers, cheerleaders and nerve-wracking contests played in an electrifying atmosphere, it doesn’t get bigger than this. To add to the excitement and to bring you more of that entertaining and behind-the-scenes stuff, HT will be there in full strength, “hooking” on to every magical moment and “bowling” you over with in-depth coverage and analysis on all our blog posts.

They Call Me Muslim

Am I a Muslim or an Indian first? Are Muslims a monolithic community — uniform and inflexible in character? Does Islam jell with secular constitutional principles? This blog predicts that the next big jihad would be about reviving the reformist tradition in Islam. (There you go again, ranting and raving.) Cool. Reform is an Islamic process.

Worldly Wise

Worldly Wise will focus on anything and everything happening in the world, India, Delhi and Gurgaon. It will be political and personal at the same time. Providing insights into issues and people.

BlogWatch

BlogWatch is about blogs. As it careens through the chaotic world of the blogosphere, this blog will track other blogs to bring you little gems, big controversies or just great blogs to read, watch or listen to.

Turned On

This blog celebrates sex and everything that comes associated with it. It doesn’t pretend to be an “everything you wanted to know” number – nor is it an “agony uncle” of any kind. It’s just a blog – like so many other blogs – that’s trying to cut it by taking prosaic ideas to incongruous extremes. Except with more sex quotient, than most.

13 Going On 30

Science has proved that the adolescent brain cell functions differently, which is why people beyond 20 don’t get them. This blog merely attempts to sort the grey from the white, but ends up discovering the rainbow in their teenage heads.

India Yatra

30 reporters. 30 photographers. 1 billion dreams. 1 newspaper.

Ahead of the elections, the Hindustan Times is pleased to present the most ambitious effort yet to understand changing India. From metropolitan backstreets to sprawling factories to rural farms to television studios, our best reporters and photographers will log thousands of kilometres across India to bring you the aspirations, dreams, hopes, rage and despair shaping India’s politics. Come along.