Cover Stories

The Future of Kashmiri Pandits

Rahul Pandita

Is there a life for them in the Valley?

Inside Imran’s Anti-Americanism

Sudeep Paul

How a playboy embarked on his quest for an Islamic utopia

The Ball Swings India’s Way

Rajeev Deshpande

New Delhi keeps away from the turmoil in Pakistan, preferring to watch from a distance the steady ebbing of Islamabad’s strategic clout

Imran Khan had one ingrained virtue. He was breathtakingly sincere. But good intentions do not constitute good governance. Like an amateur, he overestimated his abilities when he needed wile or guile as strategy. On his day of judgment, Imran compared his predicament to that of Imam Hussain. The messiah may be faltering, but the messiah complex is alive and well

The Order of the Victim

S Prasannarajan

How the politics of inversion unites Putin and Imran

Director’s Roar

Rachel Dwyer

The globalisation of South Indian cinema began with Rajamouli

The Temptations of Tollywood

Vamsee Juluri

What Telugu cinema’s ‘nativity’ represents and why it matters to a global audience

SS Rajamouli: He Dares to Dream

Ram Gopal Varma

Southern filmmakers are much closer to the ground than others. No Hollywood director can do what Rajamouli does

Cinema’s Biggest Mythmaker

Kaveree Bamzai

SS Rajamouli and the craft of the spectacular

Why Congress is Essential for India and How it Can Be Revived

Shashi Tharoor

Congress must rejuvenate itself, bringing in fresh faces and young blood into its leadership at all levels. It would help if the party took steps to promote inner-party democracy and a more consultative decision-making style: Open up the party to internal elections for its key positions. Seek the views of a wide cross-section of party stalwarts, not just a favoured few. Allow and encourage the emergence of local, state and regional leaders, ratified by periodic votes of party members