Essays

‘Put the CBI Under the Judiciary’

Arindam Mukherjee

Trinath Mishra on his refusal to give in to political meddling, which led to his decision to bow out of the agency after just 14 months

Just Another Massacre

Chinki Sinha

Sinam Ongbi Chandrajini lost two young sons and a sister when Assam Rifles personnel arbitrarily opened fire on civilians in Malom in 2000. It was the horror of this incident that led Irom Sharmila to begin her fast against AFSPA

How I survived 42 hours in a lift

arindam

Suresh Sonawane, an inspector working with the Missing Persons Bureau of the Mumbai police, went missing—only to be found two days later trapped in an office elevator

Birth of a Tycoon

Gita Piramal

How Rama Prasad Goenka got baptised by fire in the acquisitions game to emerge as India’s ‘takeover specialist’

Waiting for Deliverance

Ruhani Kaur

What families in Haryana will do to have a son. A witness’ account

The Hills Go Red

Lhendup G Bhutia

Memories of an agitation unsettling the calm of Kalimpong and of a human head on a lamppost

The Show Goes On

Candice Pinto

A decade into her modelling career, at a stage when most others would have thought it prudent to call it quits, Candice Pinto still walks the ramp nearly 300 days a year. The secret of her career longevity

Tango’s First Steps

Shyamant Behal

How the Great Depression, Juan Peron and the brothels of Argentina influenced the creation of one of the world’s most vibrant forms of music

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Anil Budur Lulla

Abdul Wasey Mirza has survived two bomb blasts, one in Hyderabad in 2007 and another in the same city in February this year. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel lodged in his body are proof of the ordeal, but what he wants to rid himself of are the scars of being branded a terror suspect