Madhavankutty Pillai

It’s India’s most fabled jail that housed the notorious and the respectable, and where some prisoners were more equal than others and some executions were stranger than what was reported. Startling revelations of a man who witnessed their lives and last moments

The travails of Shah Rukh Khan as he searched for a hit

Why free bus tickets for women won’t translate into decisive votes for Arvind Kejriwal

A new study reveals what could trigger a nuclear war in the subcontinent and the horrors of the day after

The characteristics of true politicians as shown in the resurgence of Sharad Pawar

From an unimaginable number, it has become all too ordinary. But if it no long captures the Indian imagination, what takes its place?

Making middle-order batsmen into openers in Tests usually doesn’t end well for India

What stopping of onion exports says about the state of Indian agriculture

When financial institutions get greedy and gamble, the crisis can put the whole system in mortal peril

In every domain of life, he was a player of infinite games and, therefore, his worldview becomes, in some ways, quite inaccessible to us. We have to remember that one of the litmus tests of Gandhi, and he’s absolutely firm about it, is that you never do anything to someone else that you do not first do to yourself. You never make a demand of someone else that you do not first make of yourself