Sandipan Deb

The ‘Normal’ Lens

May 20, 2021 Sandipan Deb

From the humanism of nuances and absences of his early work, to the pessimism and despair of the polemical...

At Swim, Two Birds Perched On Latticed Sites

Dec 02, 2020 Sandipan Deb

Outlook and internet in India drew first breath only a day apart. The former took Indian magazine journalism...

Tap The Ash Here

May 19, 2016 Sandipan Deb

Can people look at smoking with a scientific temper?

Starry-Eyed At The House Of Reels

Jan 11, 2016 Sandipan Deb

The big screen. Up there dreams are built and spilt, lives are lived, loved and lost and all of us are along...

The Daggers In Chinatown

Jul 13, 2015 Sandipan Deb

A recalcitrant Bengal under Chinese control, a gallery of grotesques, murder—this futuristic comedy can...

The Great Ethnic Trail

Jun 30, 2014 Sandipan Deb

A new clothes brand marries international chic with the wealth of Indian craftsmanship

We Play Better Barefootball

Jun 23, 2014 Sandipan Deb

Till the 1960s, India was a fooballing power. Then came the decline.

C Beckett b Pinter

Mar 24, 2014 Sandipan Deb

Cricket, lovely cricket! And

Inner Most Allies

Oct 07, 2013 Sandipan Deb

Alumni cults have been there as long as there have been alumni. It’s a members only club, and it looks out...

A Different River Every Time

Jun 17, 2013 Sandipan Deb

What is ‘smart’ and how does it fit our consciousness? Is there just one way to it? Are smarter people...

“The Unluckiest Man In The World?”

Feb 27, 2013 Sandipan Deb

An extract from the best-selling book on the trial of the former Goldman Sachs director who has been ordered...

The Greatest Story Ever Told, Again

Jan 10, 2013 Sandipan Deb

Exclusive extracts from a re-imagining of the Mahabharata set in the Mumbai underworld

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Nov 05, 2012 Sandipan Deb

A Poetry Long Gone

Jul 30, 2012 Sandipan Deb

Time was, you could feel cricket. YouTube killed the radio star.

Goddammit! A Vasudev And His Radio Wave!

Sep 26, 2011 Sandipan Deb

India, 2000 BC. Stewing in its own mythology, a ripping fantasy yarn has the mortal Shiva look evil in the...

The Great Indian Reel Revolution

May 30, 2005 Sandipan Deb

It has been a decade when cinema has seen more risk-taking than ever before - with subjects, treatment,...

Democracy On Shopshelves

Apr 04, 2005 Sandipan Deb

Brands empower us to choose, be it products or politicians. And to kill the unfit.

Ode To The Rainbow's End

Jan 10, 2005 Sandipan Deb

Happiness happens. But the patterns of its arrival are random and its departures are staggeringly...

Killer Tsunami

Dec 30, 2004 Sandipan Deb

We are proud of our team's commitment to our readers, but we also do not want to do this again...

Eden Rhapsody

Dec 20, 2004 Sandipan Deb