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Modi at Full Throttle

The Maharashtra result marks a watershed for the state and bolsters the Modi government, validating its ideological agenda even as Jharkhand hails the rise of Hemant Soren

The Nowhere Alliance

Congress still doesn’t know why India has not accepted I.N.D.I.A.

The Shaken and the Starred

The latest round of elections shattered many reputations while consolidating others

The Tao of Winning and Losing

Rahul's failure to gauge the growing distance between his world and the India that indulges Modi

Under the Sacred Light

Fifty lakh devotees throng Tiruvannamalai for the Karthigai Deepam festival when a lamp is lit atop the Arunachala hill. Travelling solo, Priyanka Dalal experiences the sublime

Barabar Caves: The Repassage

A hundred years ago, EM Forster, in his most celebrated novel A Passage to India, wrote about the Marabar Caves. Tansy Troy travels to Bihar’s Barabar Caves, the inspiration for Forster’s fictional setting

Normandy: Ghosts of War

On the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion that won World War II, Rishad Saam Mehta visits the sites of the Normandy landings to discover that violence has been replaced by tribute and thankfulness

Kraków: Living in a Metaphor

Like a well-crafted novel, Kraków reveals its secrets slowly, inviting repeated visits, rewarding careful attention. Sabin Iqbal gets into the city’s literary soul

The Buddha Smiles Again

Padum in Zanskar was a small, isolated Buddhist town accessed in winters only through an arduous trek over a river of ice. Today, Amita Shah finds a new highway offshoot that has brought the world to it

Vitamin R in Tobacco Land

The Cuban cigar is coveted worldwide but what does it mean to the country itself? Ullekh NP ventures into the tobacco heartland of Pinar del Río and finds a connection with Kerala and the beedi

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