The despicable visionary who built one of the world’s great museums

Henry Clay Frick was an entrepreneur, philanthropist and connoisseur with a dark side.

Girish Shahane

· Dec 02, 2020 · 11:30 am

Why Mike Tyson is the most over-rated boxer alive

On Saturday night, the legend returns to the ring to fight an exhibition match.

Girish Shahane

· Nov 28, 2020 · 12:57 pm

Why Mike Tyson is the most over-rated boxer alive

On Saturday night, the legend returns to the ring to fight an exhibition match.

Girish Shahane

· Nov 28, 2020 · 12:00 pm

What American Democrats and the global Left get wrong about undocumented immigrants

Race should cease to be the primary lens through which the crisis is viewed.

Girish Shahane

· Nov 16, 2020 · 06:30 am

The best thing Donald Trump did

In the 2010s, the United States stopped playing the world’s policeman.

Girish Shahane

· Nov 07, 2020 · 09:00 am

Khabib Nurmagomedov and the rise of the Caucasians

A long wrestling tradition was the foundation of Dagestan’s success in mixed martial arts.

Girish Shahane

· Oct 29, 2020 · 07:30 am

How a hundred-year-old poem speaks to the central conflict of the 2010s

The Irish poet WB Yeats’s ‘The Second Coming’ dramatises the move from anarchy to dictatorship.

Girish Shahane

· Dec 25, 2019 · 08:30 am

Sunday Bloody Sunday: Watching U2 perform in Navi Mumbai in troubled times

At their best, U2 find a lyrical space that easily blends specific, urgently political references with images of landscapes and human relationships.

Girish Shahane

· Dec 18, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Why a banana stuck to a wall is worth $1,20,000

The episode is crazy but that is the whole point.

Girish Shahane

· Dec 11, 2019 · 07:30 am

Who won the debate between Martin Scorsese and Marvel?

The superhero franchise factory is dreadful, but so is Scorsese’s wasteful self-indulgence in ‘The Irishman’.

Girish Shahane

· Dec 05, 2019 · 08:30 am

In Maharashtra, a coup and a counter-coup – but democracy is still worth celebrating

It is unclear how long this coalition of unlikely allies will last, and what long-term damage allying with the Shiv Sena will do to the Congress.

Girish Shahane

· Nov 28, 2019 · 06:30 am

From Israel to Ayodhya, how Might becomes Right in politics and law

Hindu activists have asserted a kind of divine right to the acres occupied by Mir Baqi’s mosque, paralleling the Zionist claim to Israel and Judah.

Girish Shahane

· Nov 21, 2019 · 06:30 am