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The Damn Floods: Why We Are Never Prepared
Why does nearly every ‘natural’ disaster hit us on such a scale? What are we doing wrong? Who’s guilty? Kerala’s monster monsoon leaves us with a deluge of questions.
The KCR Gambit
Political debate heats up in Telangana over early elections.
Count Your Rupee In Cents
Will 70 to a dollar be the new normal for the Indian currency?
Epic Sound Of Thunder
The Adishakti group brings alive a myth from the Ramayana.
Flood And After- New Kerala, Green Kerala
Was the deluge so terrible because of poor planning and meddling with nature? Environmental concerns must come to the fore as Kerala rebuilds.
Turn On A Thousand Lights
Lights As DMK chief, Stalin has to keep his flock together, set an agenda and meet challenges.
The Force Of Habit
The success of the nuns protest stirs Keralas political soup.
Winter Is Coming
Measures against stubble burning will make but a dent in the smoke.
Runaway River On Kochi's Flight Path
UN award fails to hide airports shaky foundations.
The Sub-plot In Ratnam's Saga
The veteran director returns with a violent mafia movie after a string of flops.
Self Care In A Blinding State
After a hail of 1.3 million pellets by security forces, some victims get together to rehabilitate in Kashmir
Sepsis Shots For The Masses
Modicare ambitiously plans healthcare for the poor, but doesn’t address the glaring concerns of past efforts
We Are All Harappans
The Rakhigarhi project shines light on an old enigma: the Harappans were genetically ‘Ancestral South Indian’ stock. Which is to say, all of us in South Asia are their children.
Admit Not Jeeves's Game Sense
The BCCI detests the RTI’s bind. Yet its very structure—the men who officiate in matches—stands on government patronage.
This Secrecy May Be A Fig Leaf
Deviations from universal practices in bilateral deals, even regarding defence procurement, cannot be beyond the scrutiny of Parliament and the public
Protection For Unruly Data
Europe’s shown the data protection way with the GDRP, India intends to follow, but the road is tricky
The Baba Of Big Bucks
Combining commercial success with simplicity, Ramdev is a class apart,
The BHIM Thing
The Dalit social movement needed a leader who would demand power. Chandrashekhar stepped up.
Clarity And Revolution
A tireless warrior tracing the lines of oppression.
Script Abhi Baaki Hai
Knowing Kashyap as a twenty something film buffto the auteur he became, a contemporary predicts that the director has yet much more to offer to Hindi cinema.
His Search Umbrella
The Google mothership enters into a bit of a storm. It’s a tough course from here. How shall the calm captain fare?
Confidence Does It
Top bank employees, government agencies like the ED and a lax system enabled Nirav Modi to pull off his con.
In Here, It's Dog Treat Dog
A key gap in canine healthcare has been filled with India’s first blood bank for dogs in Chennai.
All You Need Is Radio Ga Ga
Inventive podcasters are changing the way we consume information on audio.
What iPhone, I have the Blackberry!
India didn’t have Netflix then and Jio was yet to be concieved.
The Short Change Card
Is the government’s new dole scheme another mirage or will the farmer benefit?
Heads Change, Cops Roll
An ex-IPS officer damns the Bengal CM in his suicide note.
What India Eats and What's Wrong With It
Tracing the contours of the ‘nutrition famine’ hitting those who think they eat well points at the cure: recovering the diversity in what we eat
The Vizier's Gambit
BJP and RSS leaders thrashed out their 2019 poll strategy in a recent meeting
Kashmir Is A Political Problem. New Delhi Must Accept This.
Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq tells Naseer Ganai that New Delhi should stop projecting the Kashmir issue as one of terrorism, and seek the solution through negotiations among Kashmiris and the Indian and Pakistani governments.