Believe it or not, Raj Thackeray’s MNS is wooing Muslims in Maharashtra even as it attacks Hindi speaking leaders like Abu Azmi. The party spies votes in yet another divide—and Bal Thackeray’s Shiv Sena seems ready to follow suit
12 November 2009Radhika Shaikh, a Hindu, teaches orthodox Muslim women the art of self defence.
07 October 2009They were supposed to go for the Maharashtra government’s jugular. Instead, they’re at each other’s throats.
07 October 2009Madhav Agasti, fashion designer to Maharashtra politicians, also dresses Congress and BJP leaders.
24 September 2009A national sugar crisis. An Assembly election in Maharashtra. For better or worse, they’re closely entwined.
17 September 2009There’s an eerie hush in the Mumbai underworld. Guns have made way for knives, sharpshooters for chain snatchers. Is the age of the dons over?
17 September 2009The RSS finally steps out in full public glare to tell the BJP who’s boss within the Saffron Family
03 September 2009Government hospitals store breast milk for newborns whose mothers can’t feed them
27 August 2009The thirteenth direct descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji leads a quaint life of forced elegance while what he really wants to do is race down the highways and party with friends
13 August 2009For Rs 2.75 lakh, a Pune institution promises to turn you into a full-fledged neta
30 July 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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