India

Organ Swaps: The Domino Chain of Life

Lhendup G Bhutia

Organ swaps are happening between numerous families simultaneously to work around the problem of long waiting lists

A Cockney Chaffinch and the Art of Birdsong

What do bird calls do to human minds? Our brains store away the aural backgrounds to our lives and when we hear strange, unfamilar sounds, we feel alienated. In this personal aural mindscape of ours, birds play a major part

A Village and a Wish List

Kumar Anshuman

Our correspondent travels through Haryana’s Rewari district to see how the Budget’s rural vision has rekindled the hopes of villagers

Lobster as a Metaphor

Bibek Debroy

1991 A Personal History

The Personal and Political

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

A bagful of anecdotes

The Long March

Siddharth Singh

Of five Finance Ministers

PV Narasimha Rao: The Outsider Who Dared

PR Ramesh

PV Narasimha Rao needed somebody who would be adept at tackling the immediate problems, come up with out-of-the-box solutions, and take courageous decisions to pull the country back from the precipice. He plumped for Manmohan Singh