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).

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bat On Regardless

If you’re looking for the last word on cricket, this is not the place for you. What’s really happening in the Indian team? Are the Australians as good as people make them out to be? Is the ICC relevant? Let’s discuss it. The last word, though, is still yours.

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.

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.″

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.

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.

Shoot At Sight

Adventures of Inderjeet

A new year, a new blog. But instead of my wise-ass take on things that may or may not interest you in IndiGestion, I’ve decided to push the red button this year. No, not by going AWOL or ejecting myself from the seat the way we all were secretly hoping President Pratibha Patil would when she mounted a Sukhoi last year, but by bringing you one continuing tall story in weekly installments, aenema-appointments style in ‘Adventures in Lockdown Town’. Like before, I’ll provide the soundtrack, but this time instead of sideways connections, the opening track will set the mood for this weekly story of Inderjeet, a fake eye-doctor who gets deeper and deeper into the mess that is 2010 New Delhi.

@ 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.

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.

Page Turner

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

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.