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 .

Madversity

Madversity — A little bit mad, a little bit adverse, Madversity takes a creative, tangential look at society, politics, economics and show business. Using one-liners, aphorisms, limericks, verse and other forms terse, it offers biting insights and irreverent perspectives with the magic of words.

Foreign Hand

One-sixth of mankind is emerging from self-imposed isolation. The changing relationship between India and the World is about economics, security and all that stuff. But it’s also about how India’s worldview is evolving. The “foreign hand” once referred to sinister overseas manipulation. Today, it’s really about a world taking the pulse of an awakening India.″

Car-Nama

Cutting out the jargon without omitting any of the details, this blog will help you discover the best set of wheels, and occasionally also help in getting the best out of the set you already possess. With an attempt to give a snapshot at what makes India one of the most active automotive markets in the world, it hopes to make the second most expensive investment in a lifetime, a worthwhile and enjoyable one.

Inside Story

This blog — call it a due diligence report — intends to cover behind the scenes action when the country and its political leadership are in crisis mode. It will collect, collate and analyse pieces of information to construct the big picture and it will often recommend solution to defuse the situation at hand.

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.

Sportoholic

In spite of all the corruption, cheating and scandals, we continue to love the world of sports. The name of the blog speaks for itself and so whether you’re a Sportoholic or not, our bloggers will take you inside major sporting events and engage you in ways by making you think from a totally different perspective.

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!

Gyan at a Glance

This blog takes you beyond the news headlines, tells you the story behind
the story and helps put it in perspective. In short, it offers you the big
picture on things that are happening around you.

@ 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.

Kurakani in Kathmandu

As its two neighbours—India and China—race to become developed nations, Nepal is still caught in a social, political, economic and religious time-warp and remains one of the poorest nations. This blog is an attempt to look at the former Hindu nation as it tries to metamorphose. It will discuss issues—serious and the seemingly trivial—sometimes from an Indian perspective.

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

A journey through life and books and reading – from the point of view of one to whom those things are indistinguishable.

Mind’s I

This blog deals with the realities of life, its beautiful as well as the not-so-beautiful aspects. It tells you how to enjoy life even in the worst of crisis. It tells you the key to happiness is there in your mind, and that your enemy is actually your best friend. It tells you to repeat every morning, as a mantra, ‘all is well with the world’!

Desi in DC

Get another look at the land of opportunities, everything Hollywood will never show and everything successful Amreekan relatives will never reveal.

Ecostani

Environment concerns every one but a very few care for it. Call it deficiency of policy or lack of individual will power but there are voiceless in Save the Planet fight whose future depends on sound ecology for survival like Mowglii from Jungle Book. From tribal communities in India’s richest mineral districts to the fast vanishing wildlife, this blog will present such stories which miss the politically heavy news headlines. Occasionally, there would be insight on ongoing environmental issues.

Tailor Talk

There’s more to fashion than you think… bitching, back biting, power politics and then of course, if time permits designing. A peek into the fascinating world of fashion and its people.

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.

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.

Fad for Thought

These weekly scribbles scratch the underbelly and thick skin over India’s mass culture and popular fads. The blog names places, animals and films that make the writer go: “You got to be kidding
me!”

Just Faith

This blog tracks religion. In all its dimensions. In all its forms. In its inspirations — and its failures. It does not and will not preach. Led by news, it offers reports, analyses and opinions on this emotionally-charged but intellectually-neglected area of society.

Terminal 3

The blog takes its name from the busiest terminal at Heathrow for long-haul flights serving Asia, America and Africa. Its a symbol of many races, religions and nationalities. Of arrivals and departures. And of the East, the West and the spaces in between.

They Call Me Muslim

Am I a Muslim or an Indian first? Are Muslims a monolithic community — uniform and inflexible in character? Does Islam gel 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.

Proto Indian

There are opinions the Right call Marxist, the Left call revisionist and the liberals call anarchist. Then, there are world views that are pro-American or pro-West, pro-Pakistan or progressive and pro-China aka “independent”. But take a pronounced pro-India stand and the bleeding hearts, who brook no criticism, will immediately label you a jingoist. That’s a burden this blog will manfully bear…  only to test if the right of expression is really free.

Download Central

Download Central is about discovering new music. The Internet has opened up an exciting vista for music lovers as well as musicians. While fans of great music can use the Net to access almost anything they want, for many independent musicians, it’s the best way to reach listeners. DC is a weekly update on the cool stuff that’s playing out there.

Our Daily Bread

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

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.

Switch Shot

This blog from Sri Lanka will be about things that doesn’t find space in news reports; about people, culture, trends and the bizarre. Like vintage cars in a Buddhist temple; or whale and dolphin watching down south; or maybe about the rather loud and advanced technical expertise that goes behind making the local staple, kottu roti. It will certainly not be the final word on Lankan society but will at least expose the uncertainties of my understanding. To correct, feel free to comment and question. You will anyway.

Past Bloggers

Have a look at what our former bloggers had to talk about.