India

The Underfed and the Unscrupulous

Shahina KK

Raichur district of Karnataka has some of India’s worst statistics on malnourished children. It is hard to tell which is the worse scandal: the lack of nutrition here or the money being made off it

Failing at the Art of Politics

Dhirendra K Jha

The FDI decision has created a crisis that everyone but the Congress could have foreseen

Jigna Vora vs Mumbai Police

Haima Deshpande

The police claim they have a case against this journalist. If so, they must prove it, not vilify and harass her

The Phantom Who Fell

Rahul Pandita

The legend of Kishenji and what his death means to India’s Maoist movement

Raj Thackeray’s Test

Haima Deshpande

Why he wants his partymen to clear a written exam to qualify as poll candidates

The Two-in-One League

Shahina KK

The Indian Union Muslim League has partly been operating under another party’s name

Back to the Dynasty in UP

Jatin Gandhi

The Congress launched its bid for power in the state last year. But at Phulpur, instead of taking that campaign ahead, it has regressed to its old ways

A desperate Bengal ousted the Left, seeking ‘poribarton’. Six months on, Mamata Banerjee is as vocal as she was while lavishing poll promises, yet ‘change’ looks elusive as ever. So, what’s holding back poribarton?

History of Exposure

Kalpish Ratna

The National AIDS Control Organisation has recently claimed that syphilis is close to eradication in India. While that itself is contestable, the real shocker is what the US condoned in the name of syphilis research

India in the Time of Gandhi

Dhirendra K Jha

Historian Ramachandra Guha has stirred up a controversy with his suggestion of a late 1940s collusion between the Left and Muslim communalists in Hyderabad, but the facts don’t justify his claim