CATEGORIES

Narendra Modi's Mandarins

A close-knit team of bureaucrats enjoying the PM’s confidence is his trusted means to realise his vision.

Ilaiyaraaja- A King Without Royalty

Composer Ilaiyaraaja fights for his due, and the industry shows cracks.

Four Years Of 'Modinomics'

It’s time for an audit. How has the Modi regime fared on the economy? Even beyond DeMo and GST, it’s a patchwork quilt.

Uri Attack: How To Foil Pak Terror Plots For Good?

Avoiding reactionary retaliation, Modi government plans for a cold, calculated response to the Uri attack.

Surgical Strike: The Midnight Surgery

Along with punitive measures against Pakistan—a diplomatic offensive, boycott of the SAARC summit and talk of an Indus waters offensive—comes the ‘surgical strike’ across the LoC. India awaits a response.

Dystopia's Online. And it Will Not Die.

It’s the season of predictions, so let’s be audacious: twitter will be the human race’s #pathtosurvival

Did Advani Go Soft On Dawood Link?

Investigative journalist Josy Joseph’s book A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India reveals that intelligence agencies had given inputs of links between mafia don Dawood Ibrahim and Jet Airways promoter Naresh Goyal in the early 2000s. Many notes were sent to then deputy PM L.K.Advani, but nothing was done—even after the government was shattered by the Kandahar hijack. In fact, soon after the hijack, Goyal was given security clearance for Jet. The exclusive extract here shows the hold Dawood has over Indian business the questionable rise of Jet Airways and the politicians who benefited from it.

Surgical Strikes Will Affect The Assembly Polls In Uttar Pradesh!

Surgical strikes by the Indian army are set to affect the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.

How Patidars Found Merit In Reservation

All along, the Patels of Gujarat had stood in opposition to caste quotas. That did not work, so they have started demanding OBC status.

The Great Job Chase

FDI’s up, so is GDP. And yet the demographic dividend lies untapped. Here’s why.

Arvind Kejriwal: St Teresa Of Calcutta!

One does not need any skill to serve the destitute, only a desire for service.

The Roaster Of Judges- It's A Relative Matter!

Keep those elevated from the subordinate judiciary out, and nearly half of India’s top judges are kith and kin of ex-judges and top jurists.

In Meluku, East of Eden

The Story of Spices is the Story of Temptation—and Human Civilisation’s Rise and Fall. A String of Fabled, Fragrant Islands Forms its Kernel.

The Hills Tied In Knots

A Bill In Matrilineal Meghalaya Bars Khasi Women From Inheritance Rights If They Marry Non-Khasis.

It's Personal Once Again

The Triple Talaq Bill Made Big Noise When It Was Drafted Last Year, But It Is Still To Serve Its Purpose.

Changing Gears

That our roads are getting deadlier by the day isn’t really breaking news. But no one thinks this fact will ever come home to roost. Well, in my case, it did – literally!

Charge Through The Cappuccino

Presenting Calcutta’s Cafe Positive, where young HIV positive persons deliver a strongish brew.

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.