Indrajit Hazra

There are some bands and albums that you think you’ll like even before you hear them. Indrajit Hazra writes.

What is it about our home minister Palaniappan Chidambaram that makes so many people choose him as the man in government they love to hate? Indrajit Hazra writes.

An essential feature of madness is a rupture with reality. Or the world's disconnection from the mad man's 'real' world. Indrajit Hazra writes.

The House of Eden was divided. That was expected. But what wasn't was the confusing roar that kept breaking out like a sonic boom from the 65,000-plus capacity crowd.  Indrajit Hazra writes.

The death of 19-year-old Richard Loitam was tragic. But in the larger scheme of things, it is a death like so many others that happen every day: sudden, unnatural and remaining a mystery for so long that it runs the risk of turning into a statistic. Indrajit Hazra writes.

As a Congressman, Salman Khurshid surely has tried his bit to 'strengthen the party' many times before — and has made a hash of it. Indrajit Hazra writes.

Time-keeping for humans essentially serves two functions: social and biological. Indrajit Hazra writes.

This is how a great rock album should sound. Or a great pop album. Or a great whatever. Katie White and Jules de Martino aka The Ting Tings have come up with something that has the charge of a head-on car crash and the sheer coolness of a Tate Modern exhibit. Indrajit Hazra writes.

Before Bob Biswas became famous in Kahaani as the insurance agent you would never suspect of being a contract killer, he was just another ordinary guy in the neighbourhood, living in a two-room tubelight-lit place with his wife and two kids probably called Bapon and Mou. Indrajit Hazra writes.

Abit tired of Adele, Duffy and all the other retro 'C'mon girl, let's go Motown!' vocal sensations? Indrajit Hazra writes.

I don't like President Pratibha Patil. And it's personal. I'm sure I wouldn't have been, well, impolite if she had been a lawyer, a politician or even a governor of a state, Indrajit Hazra writes.

From Falaknuma, the restaurant on the ninth floor of the Clarks Avadh hotel, the view at night is stunning. Indrajit Hazra writes.

The Congress and the BJP both floundered again in the recent Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. We widen the net and look at other states in the country to ask the big question — do our two national parties suffer from over-centralisation? And can the exception of Gujarat provide a clue? Indrajit Hazra writes.

A visit to the crime scene should immediately tell you that this isn't your usual crime of passion. The incident does involve a hysterical woman who makes threats the way some of us react when stomped on our toes. Indrajit Hazra writes.