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Balancing The Wheel
With polls pending, Khaleda Zia in jail and Hasina pampering Islamists, Bangladesh is on edge
Hunger, Bloodthirst, Murder
An adivasi’s lynching sparks an artistic outpouring that only discomfits activists
AAP Among Unequals
Angry, Alternative Politics, they called it. But has AAP failed to redeem its pledge? Is it too angry, and not alternative enough?
Immovable And Rusted Objects
Obstructionist bureaucracy needs an injection of specialists
A Broom In The Wrong Place
There’s talk of President’s Rule, but, for better optics, the BJP will more likely let Delhi’s AAP government hoist itself with its own petard
A Party That Lost Its Fig Leaf
AAP grew overambitious; its leader anyway tended to be autocratic. The party’s slide began when it became unscrupulous. Will it reform its ways?
Scent Of The Lotus Bloom
It’s not just about dashing moves, their motive has to reach people. Modi knows it.
Broomstruck In Bathinda
Akalis are seen as useless amid economic distress; the Congress is patchily popular. It’s the AAP many in Punjab are turning to.
Woof Of Nepotism
Public outcry grows over a ‘job-giving clique’ around CM
Scent Of A Phul Bloom
After almost a quarter century, Uttar Pradesh politics is witnessing an almost impossible pheno­menon: the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have joined hands in the poll arena.
Yonder, The Dark Star
The CPI(M) should have emulated some social movements in India. A know-it-all attitude undid the party.
X Files: Karma Or Karti
Here’s what the Sheena Bora murder case has to do with investment in INX and the arrest of Karti Chidambaram
Addicted To Melancholia, And All Its Glory
In awe of the self-destructive, tragic lover, Hindi cinema continues to reimagine Devdas, as if for each generation
New Lock For EU's Digital Mines
Indian companies dealing with European data wait ­anxiously as the EU pushes in new security rules
The Vulture On The Wire
As more of our lives comes to be lived online, the worst we encounter or evade in ‘real’ life reappears digitally magnified with a vengeance­
Rain Or Shine, The Glow Eludes Growers Yet Again
Sky-high tomato prices have set off WhatsApp jokes, but the farmer is shortchanged—and left only to weep.
The Women Count
India’s pioneering psephologists slice through the clutter with some revelations: women might outvote men in 2019, despite millions being disenfranchised.
How Many Have Fallen?
The BJP Controls The Game After Balakot As The Opposition Loses The Narrative And Bonds Loosen.
'It's A Shame 21 Million Women Can't Vote'
The turnout of women voters will likely be more than that of men in the 2019 general election and yet 21 million women will not have their names on the rolls. Opposition unity will be decisive and alliances will make or break every state. These and other such revelations fill The Verdict (Penguin Random House), the forthcoming book by election experts Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala. The authors spoke to Satish Padmanabhan on what makes the 2019 polls the biggest and most important. Excerpts:
Roses Smell Sweet, So Do They
The Afghan national cricket team warmly embraces its ‘home’ bases in India.
A For AAPlause, B For Boos
Delhi government fixed a broken state schooling system, but glitches remain.
Time's Filter: Made For Each Other
They are the faces that launch a thousand products. Some are famous now; some are forever touched by the magic of old ads.
India Should Stop Looking At China Through The Pakistan Prism
At one point, India must stop regarding China solely through its staunch support of Pakistan
The Job Boom On Paper
The MSME sector has just about started to recover, but a new report claims that things have been well.
Through A Film Of Red
The unbearable pressures of an India-Pakistan clash.
Rahul Gandhi: "Power Is Poison, But You Can't Run Away From It"
It’s been a long, gruelling campaign for the Lok Sabha elections.
A Lull After The Storm
CM Naveen Patnaik’s ‘zero casualty’ hype was blown away as Cyclone Fani left a trail of tragedies.
In Saffron Stacks, Stocks & Stakes
The run-up to 2019 was peppered with much discontent, many agitations. Come D-Day, the voter’s message is all’s well with the BJP and its governance
Last Action Heroes?
A generation gets left behind. You may not see most of these veteran leaders fight another election.
Modimatic
The Narendra Modi and Amit Shah arithmetic proved the Opposition calculus on widespread anti-BJP discontent wrong, and how!