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The Enchantress of Vaishali

Alka Pande

The Amrapali model of women’s liberation

Collector’s Conscience

Shaikh Ayaz

Kiran Nadar is already into her next museum

Breaking the Sacred Ceiling

Lhendup G Bhutia

The Buddhist nuns who dared

The Saga of the Drone Lady

Amita Shah

A drone operative, a goat banker and an organic farmer catch the Prime Minister’s eye

Strength In Numbers

V Shoba

India’s women mathematicians are coming into their own

She’s Unstoppable

Madhavankutty Pillai

Indian women make a power statement in every sphere of life

Inside the Libido Industry

Lhendup G Bhutia

The market for male sexual wellness in India is booming with a number of new businesses launching products that make a taboo subject mainstream

Market Manna

Madhavankutty Pillai

PSU stocks have seen an extraordinary boom of late as a result of reforms that began in 2014 and the government’s vast capital expenditure to bolster them

Mass Capital

PR Ramesh

How Narendra Modi has made PSUs lucrative

The power balance in Pakistan is poised on a fragile axis. Sharif, Zardari and Khan constitute a lopsided triangle. All three are high-stakes gamblers in the no-limits political casino. The croupier-owner is the army. All three know that this is their last throw of dice