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 2009CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma 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 several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm
Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.