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Essays

The sacred and the profane

Let the spiritual and the sustainable meet to save the Ganga

A requiem for our first car

With the demise of the Ambassador goes the last symbol of the Nehruvian Age

The Queen of Khap

Sudesh Choudhary has broken a tradition spanning more than six centuries. Do men still set the limits of her power?

Maybe some paraffin for a nation stuck

The person you really have to watch out for is a certain energetic public servant from Gujarat, because leaders’ biggest troubles are almost always self-inflicted wounds

Sexual Harassment

The author underwent female-to-male sex re-assignment surgery, but has been unable to switch his passport gender. The story of his struggle in his own words

A Venetian lesson for the Lion of Hindustan

What the world’s longest lasting republic can teach the leader of the world’s largest democracy

The Elephant Whisperer

What started as a photography assignment to capture a festival of pachyderms soon turned into a passion project for Anand Shinde

Aggression of the ascetic

Deconstructing Modi’s semiotic war: Is it the end of Nehruvian India?

Nocturnal Mission

Wandering the city at night with photographer Gavin Evans

What Modi can learn from 2009

The Political Editor of The Economist returns to the last General Election to make sense of India 2014

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