sentences:  Between 1993 and 1999, he was also a leader writer for The Times and wrote a weekly column of lively cultural commentary, "Ripple Effects", for it.In his role as religion and philosophy editor for The Times, he began a popular column on spirituality, sociology of religion, and philosophical commentary, "The Speaking Tree" (he named the column, which was launched in May 1996, after the benchmark 1971 study of Indian society and culture, "The Speaking Tree", written by his friend, the scholar and artist Richard Lannoy).Hoskote was an art critic and cultural commentator, as well as a senior editor, with "The Hindu", from 2000 to 2007, contributing to its periodical of thought and culture, "Folio" as well as to its editorial and op-ed pages, and its prestigious Sunday Magazine.