Tom Petty’s songs were words soaked in kerosene and set alight, aimed straight at the heart of cynicism – yet somehow missing it. Close enough to singe but not quite burn the place that says “try again”.

On the birthday of Samuel Johnson, the father of the modern dictionary, we’re voting for a set of new words to be included in the lexicon. Come now, don’t be bellygerent or you might get a serious veterant.

The Nobel might be as relevant today as the red letterbox or the pay phone. By recognising Bob Dylan’s poetic expressions, the prize has reinvented and reinvigorated itself.

The early ’90s for me was a period of deep turmoil and inner searching. MJ’s songs, MJ’s moves, and MJ’s mistakes made me look deeper than the obvious.

More than 50 years after it was first published, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird reminds us that of all the segregations possible of the human species, the one based on race, colour, and religion is the most prevalent. And the deadliest.

The devotee and the deity are joined by a feeling of smallness felt by the former in the latter’s presence. Muhammad Ali, however, made his disciples feel larger and stronger.

As the Modi government completes two years in office, the aam aadmi finds himself caught between the Politics of Slander, the Politics of Pander and the Politics of Pure Anger.

The Artist Formerly Known As Prince was more than a musician. For a gawky, lisping, introverted Bengali from 1990s’ Kolkata, he was a rite of passage.

Meet the proud offspring of Bharat Mata. Remember these names and avoid them at all costs.