An acute shortage of land for burial is forcing families to share graves.
21 April 2010For 125 years, the families of Surabhi have been making sacrifices just to ensure that the show goes on. But now, they won’t last much longer without some help.
17 March 2010Believe it or not, entrepreneur Vibhu Natarajan exports palm trees to West Asia. Because gardens need to be grown overnight.
04 March 2010They are young go-getting infotech professionals virtually chained to their desktop computers. But the RSS has given them a cause beyond their careers.
25 February 2010A surprising number of recession-hit IT professionals in Bangalore are rebooting their careers by starting their own restaurants.
12 January 2010The Telangana agitation has the city in hyperventilation mode on both sides of the divide. What’s hurting badly is Brand Hyderabad.
07 January 2010Kannada cine star Vishnuvardhan’s death threw Karnataka into turmoil. Just what mob mania is at play?
07 January 2010Gaddar (born Gummadi Vittal Rao), folk balladeer to the masses, has been a leading Maoist voice.
16 December 2009Maoists have rejoiced the most heartily on the announcement of this new state to be carved out of Andhra Pradesh, and not without reason.
16 December 2009A BPO executive from the Northeast is crooning his way into the classical scene down South.
09 December 2009Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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