True Life

From the Autopsy Table

Shahina KK

Dr Shirley Vasu, one of Kerala’s top forensic surgeons, on living in the company of corpses for over 30 years

A Different Species

Michael Edison Hayden

The mysterious world of a house cat

Sleepless on Facebook

Sumana Roy

The nocturnal gathering of insomniacs on a social networking site

In the Enemy’s Mind

Edwin C May

During the Cold War, Edwin C May ran a secret psychic spying programme, known as Star Gate, for the US government. He recounts the project’s successes, as he sees them

The Irreversible

Manti Devi

Why I dumped my baby in a garbage heap

Living with Lalli

Kalpana Swaminathan

One afternoon on a bus in Mumbai, writer Kalpana Swaminathan discovered her detective, Lalli—a collector of curiosities that hint of murder

Merchants of Policy

Shanu Athiparambath

There is nothing ‘non-profit’ about most Indian think-tanks, contends Shanu Athiparambath, given the mindboggling ease with which funds are usually siphoned off

From a meeting with Mahesh Bhatt at his fourth floor office that led him to write the song Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai to another meeting at a fourth-floor office, this time with Aditya Chopra, about writing the film Ek Tha Tiger, journalist Neelesh Misra speaks of his first ten years in Bollywood

‘You Are My Illegitimate Father’

Rohit Shekhar

For six years, he has fought in court to be recognised as ND Tiwari’s son. Any day now, Rohit Shekhar will learn the results of the DNA test

The Undefeated

Payel Bhattacharya

She is India’s only known patient of Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, and has undergone eight surgeries so far. She couldn’t complete college because she was always waiting in doctors’ chambers. She lost her father as he couldn’t afford a bypass surgery. Payel Bhattacharya on the loneliness and anger of being the only one of her kind