Dispatch

India-Pakistan Trade: Border Trauma

Nikita Doval

The suspension of India-Pakistan trade has taken a toll on businesses and lives in Amritsar and Attari. Deserted check posts and empty warehouses are reminders of the boom that went bust in February last year

Behind the Upsurge in Stalin’s Popularity

Ajay Kamalakaran

Dispatch from St Petersburg

The Long Walk to Kartarpur

Nikita Doval

The corridor of the faithful across the border kindles economic and political hopes

“Give me a chance”, Rashid Engineer begged his interrogators

Rahul Pandita

Former J&K MLA arrested by NIA in terror-funding case even asked a top army commander for help

Death threats, beating trigger mass exodus of migrants from Kashmir

Rahul Pandita

It is the third day in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and thousands of migrant labourers from Bihar are fleeing the Valley after facing threats from local Kashmiris

Khap Panchayat: What’s in a Surname?

Amita Shah

A khap panchayat in Haryana fights the stigma of caste

The Monsoon Mantra

V Shoba

Welcoming the first rains in Chennai with a tribe of weathermen who have witnessed two man-made catastrophes in the past four years: the floods of 2015 and the water crisis that shut down parts of the city last month

Sri Lanka: The Hunt Widens

V Shoba

As Sri Lankan investigators unpeel layers of Islamist radicalisation unleashed by one man, Mohammad Zahran Hashim, V Shoba follows the terror trail on an Island still reeling from the Easter Sunday attacks

How the Gupta Brothers Bought a Country

Karan Mahajan

Novelist Karan Mahajan chronicles the rise and fall of three small-time traders from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh who went on to become the de facto rulers of South Africa