Cover Stories

Cover Up or Be Damned

Madhavankutty Pillai

With us since the beginning of civilisation, the mask finally took over the face of human beings but chances are not for long

The Valley of Paradoxes

Rahul Pandita

Between abrogation of Article 370 and district-level polls, no one is sure yet which way the pendulum will swing in Kashmir

Terra Infirma

Sudeep Paul

What still mattered most was how the US and China dealt with each other

How to Be a Modern Man

Kaveree Bamzai

New laws and the pandemic have changed ideas of masculinity and society’s expectations of men. Are they up for it?

The Newborn Dad

Lhendup G Bhutia

How the pandemic is changing the role of man

Punjab’s farmers are at Delhi’s doors demanding a rollback of the farm reform laws—reforms meant to help poorer states that today produce much more than Punjab under more difficult economic conditions. Isn’t it coercion by a pampered lot?

Harshad Mehta: The Return of Chutzpah

Kaveree Bamzai

Harshad Mehta, the stockbroker who made greed good for Indians and took the fall for it, is back in favour

The Uses Of Adversity

Madhavankutty Pillai

Welcome the spirit of enterprise that made the biggest of businesses and the poorest of people pivot to create new wealth when the lifeline of the old had been severed